Department profile
VolunteerOakland Volunteer Fire Department
Oakland, NJ · Bergen County. Oakland Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 60 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 60
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the New Jersey average.
- Top 12%
- national personnel size
- +67%
- vs. New Jersey 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.
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.
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Oakland, NJ (Bergen County), with 3 stations and 60 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,674 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,674 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #83 of 487
- 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 64 other listed departments in Bergen County
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
60 Top 12% higher than 88% 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 02420 · Oakland Volunteer Fire Department, NJ 60 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 60
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #2,674
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Coulter Volunteer…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Coulter Volunteer Fire Company and Relief Association Incorporated, PA (+ 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 NJ department.
- Oakland Volunteer (this dept) 60
- High Pitcairn Hose Com…, PA 60
- Near Coulter Volunteer…, PA 60
- Near Shaler Villa Volu…, PA 60
- Near Richland Township…, PA 60
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Oakland, NJ
- County
- Bergen County
- FDID
- 02420
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Oakland Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #83 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,674 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department is 1.6% of Bergen County roster mass
The county lists 103 departments totaling 3,763 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 23% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 60 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Coulter Volunteer Fire Company and Relief Association Incorporated, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 60 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.