Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPaterson Fire Department
Paterson, NJ · Passaic County. Paterson Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 7 stations and 256 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.
- 256
- Total personnel
- 7
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Paterson Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Jersey average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +611%
- vs. New Jersey average
- 7
- 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.
Paterson Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Paterson, NJ (Passaic County), with 7 stations and 256 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #150 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #150 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #6 of 487
- 2.73 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Passaic County
Paterson Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
256 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 16080 · Paterson Fire Department, NJ 256 personnel · 7 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 256
- STA-MULTI 7 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #150
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pembroke Pines Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pembroke Pines Fire and Rescue, FL (+ 1 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.
- High Boise City, ID 257
- Near Pembroke Pines Fi…, FL 257
- Paterson (this dept) 256
- Near Centereach, NY 255
- Low Springfield, MA 253
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Paterson, NJ
- County
- Passaic County
- FDID
- 16080
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Paterson Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #6 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #150 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 7
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Passaic County
County mix is mostly volunteer (11 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.73 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (7 stations / 256 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pembroke Pines Fire and Rescue, FL (+1 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 256 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.