Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services Department

Newport, KY · Campbell County. Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 37 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.

37
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Kentucky average.

Top 32%
national personnel size
+76%
vs. Kentucky 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
33/100
Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services 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 D
18.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
37 personnel · 2 stations

Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Newport, KY (Campbell County), with 2 stations and 37 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,097 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,097 of 22,440
  • KY personnel rank #142 of 606
  • 5.41 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 9 other listed departments in Campbell County

Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

37 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 19088 · Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services Department, KY 37 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 37
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #7,097
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Farmington
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Farmington Fire Department, MN (+ 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 KY department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Newport, KY
FDID
19088

Staffing vs the Kentucky average

How Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Kentucky. In-state it ranks #142 of 606 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,097 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 76% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
93
KY departments
981

County roster fringe

Newport Fire / Emergency Medical Services Department is 7.9% of Campbell County roster mass

The county lists 14 departments totaling 469 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.41 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 37 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Farmington Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 37 personnel

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