Department profile

Volunteer

Number 7 Township Volunteer Fire Department

New Bern, NC · Craven County. Number 7 Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 50 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

50
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Number 7 Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.

Top 18%
national personnel size
+92%
vs. North Carolina average
3
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
27/100
Number 7 Township 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 D
16.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
50 personnel · 3 stations

Number 7 Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving New Bern, NC (Craven County), with 3 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,991 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,991 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #150 of 932
  • 6.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • 19 other listed departments in Craven County

Number 7 Township Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

50 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 02507 · Number 7 Township Volunteer Fire Department, NC 50 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 50
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #3,991
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Palisades Park
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Palisades Park Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 NC department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
New Bern, NC
FDID
02507

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How Number 7 Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #150 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,991 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 92% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster fringe

Number 7 Township Volunteer Fire Department is 7.8% of Craven County roster mass

The county lists 27 departments totaling 637 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 22% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 50 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Palisades Park Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 50 personnel

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