Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department

New Vernon, NJ · Morris County. New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 60 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

60
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the New Jersey average.

Top 12%
national personnel size
+67%
vs. New Jersey average
2
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
54/100
New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity B
30 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness D
1.5 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
60 personnel · 2 stations

New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving New Vernon, NJ (Morris County), with 2 stations and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,666 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,666 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #82 of 487
  • 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 42 other listed departments in Morris County

New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

60 Top 12% higher than 88% 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 14130 · New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department, NJ 60 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 60
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,666
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Patrick-Henry Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Patrick-Henry Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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 NJ department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
New Vernon, NJ
Ambulances
2
FDID
14130

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #82 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,666 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 67% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department is 1.9% of Morris County roster mass

The county lists 79 departments totaling 3,086 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 56% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 60 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Patrick-Henry Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 60 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.