Department profile
Career (Paid)Newport Fire Department
Newport, TN · Cocke County. Newport Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 25 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 25
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Newport Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Tennessee average.
- 39th pct.
- national personnel size
- +4%
- vs. Tennessee 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.
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.
Newport Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Newport, TN (Cocke County), with 2 stations and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,752 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #13,752 of 22,440
- TN personnel rank #288 of 534
- 8.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 7 other listed departments in Cocke County
Newport Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
25 Top 61% higher than 39% 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 15213 · Newport Fire Department, TN 25 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 25
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #13,752
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hague Rural
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hague Rural Fire Department, ND (+ 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 TN department.
- Newport (this dept) 25
- High Chesterfield Volu…, MA 25
- Near Hague Rural, ND 25
- Near Lawrenceville Vol…, WV 25
- Near Bagley, MN 25
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Newport, TN
- County
- Cocke County
- FDID
- 15213
Staffing vs the Tennessee average
How Newport Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Tennessee. In-state it ranks #288 of 534 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,752 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- TN departments
- 921
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Cocke County
County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
8.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 25 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hague Rural Fire Department, ND (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 25 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TN department.