Department profile
VolunteerNumber 9 Township Volunteer Fire Department
New Bern, NC · Craven County. Number 9 Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 55 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 55
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Number 9 Township Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +112%
- vs. North Carolina 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.
Number 9 Township Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving New Bern, NC (Craven County), with 2 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,218 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,218 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #99 of 932
- 3.64 stations per 100 personnel
- 19 other listed departments in Craven County
Number 9 Township Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 02509 · Number 9 Township Volunteer Fire Department, NC 55 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,218
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lawrenceville Vol…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lawrenceville 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 NC department.
- Number 9 Township… (this dept) 55
- High Windsor Township…, MI 55
- Near Lawrenceville Vol…, VA 55
- Near Old Tappan Volunt…, NJ 55
- Near Ozark Fire Depart…, AL 55
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- New Bern, NC
- County
- Craven County
- FDID
- 02509
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Number 9 Township Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #99 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,218 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Number 9 Township Volunteer Fire Department is 8.6% 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.
3.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lawrenceville Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.