Department profile
Career (Paid)Passaic Fire Department Eastside Fire Station
Passaic, NJ · Passaic County. Passaic Fire Department Eastside Fire Station is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 118 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 118
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Passaic Fire Department Eastside Fire Station pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Jersey average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +228%
- vs. New Jersey 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.
Passaic Fire Department Eastside Fire Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Passaic, NJ (Passaic County), with 2 stations and 118 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #700 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #700 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #23 of 487
- 1.69 stations per 100 personnel
- 10 other listed departments in Passaic County
Passaic Fire Department Eastside Fire Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
118 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 16070 · Passaic Fire Department Eastside Fire Station, NJ 118 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 118
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #700
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Langford-New Oreg…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Langford-New Oregon Volunteer Fire Company, 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.
- Passaic Fire Depa… (this dept) 118
- High Durango Fire and…, CO 118
- Near Langford-New Oreg…, NY 118
- Near Hamburg Volunteer…, NY 118
- Near Saxonburg Volunte…, PA 118
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Passaic, NJ
- County
- Passaic County
- FDID
- 16070
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Passaic Fire Department Eastside Fire Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #23 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #700 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Passaic Fire Department Eastside Fire Station is 8.4% of Passaic County roster mass
The county lists 35 departments totaling 1,411 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 49% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 118 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Langford-New Oregon Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 118 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.