Department profile
Career (Paid)New Smyrna Beach Fire Department
New Smyrna Beach, FL · Volusia County. New Smyrna Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
New Smyrna Beach Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Florida average.
- Top 22%
- national personnel size
- +61%
- vs. Florida average
- 4
- stations
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
New Smyrna Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving New Smyrna Beach, FL (Volusia County), with 4 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,939 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,939 of 22,440
- FL personnel rank #110 of 352
- 8.89 stations per 100 personnel
- 16 other listed departments in Volusia County
New Smyrna Beach Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 22% higher than 78% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 08062 · New Smyrna Beach Fire Department, FL 45 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,939
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Thorofare Fire Co…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Thorofare Fire Company, NJ (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every FL department.
- New Smyrna Beach (this dept) 45
- High Woolwich, NJ 45
- Near Thorofare Fire Co…, NJ 45
- Near Wilmot Fire Compa…, PA 45
- Near Glassboro, NJ 45
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- New Smyrna Beach, FL
- County
- Volusia County
- FDID
- 08062
Staffing vs the Florida average
How New Smyrna Beach Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #110 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,939 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 206
- FL departments
- 758
County roster fringe
New Smyrna Beach Fire Department is 8.8% of Volusia County roster mass
The county lists 22 departments totaling 513 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 59% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.89 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Thorofare Fire Company, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.