Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderNewton Fire Department
Newton, NJ · Sussex County. Newton Fire Department is a fire department and 85 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.
- 85
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Newton Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Jersey average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +136%
- vs. New Jersey average
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.
Newton Fire Department is a fire department serving Newton, NJ (Sussex County) and 85 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,314 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,314 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #45 of 487
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 27 other listed departments in Sussex County
Newton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
85 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 19151 · Newton Fire Department, NJ 85 personnel
PERS-MID · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 85
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,314
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Meadowood County…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Meadowood County Area Fire Department, NH (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every NJ department.
- Newton (this dept) 85
- High Alden Hook and La…, NY 85
- Near Meadowood County…, NH 85
- Near Parsonsburg Volun…, MD 85
- Near Panama City Fire…, FL 85
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Newton, NJ
- County
- Sussex County
- FDID
- 19151
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Newton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #45 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,314 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Newton Fire Department is 8.6% of Sussex County roster mass
The county lists 38 departments totaling 990 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Meadowood County Area Fire Department, NH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 85 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.