Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOcean City Fire and Rescue Services Department
Ocean City, NJ · Cape May County. Ocean City Fire and Rescue Services Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 65 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.
- 65
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Ocean City Fire and Rescue Services Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the New Jersey average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +81%
- 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.
Ocean City Fire and Rescue Services Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Ocean City, NJ (Cape May County), with 3 stations and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,246 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,246 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #73 of 487
- 4.62 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Cape May County
Ocean City Fire and Rescue Services Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
65 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 05001 · Ocean City Fire and Rescue Services Department, NJ 65 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 65
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Conewango
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Conewango Fire Department, NY (+ 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 NJ department.
- Ocean City Fire a… (this dept) 65
- High Easton Volunteer, CT 65
- Near Conewango, NY 65
- Near Greensboro Volunt…, MD 65
- Near Hinsdale Maplehur…, NY 65
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Ocean City, NJ
- County
- Cape May County
- FDID
- 05001
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Ocean City Fire and Rescue Services Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #73 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,246 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
Ocean City Fire and Rescue Services Department is 7.3% of Cape May County roster mass
The county lists 34 departments totaling 892 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 56% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 65 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Conewango Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 65 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.