Department profile
OtherPaulsboro Volunteer Fire Company
Paulsboro, NJ · Gloucester County. Paulsboro Volunteer Fire Company is a fire department and 40 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 40
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Paulsboro Volunteer Fire Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the New Jersey average.
- Top 28%
- national personnel size
- +11%
- vs. New Jersey average
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.
Paulsboro Volunteer Fire Company is a fire department serving Paulsboro, NJ (Gloucester County) and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,236 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,236 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #228 of 487
- 32 other listed departments in Gloucester County
Paulsboro Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
40 Top 28% higher than 72% 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 08170 · Paulsboro Volunteer Fire Company, NJ 40 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 40
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #6,236
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harrells Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Harrells Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every NJ department.
- Paulsboro Volunte… (this dept) 40
- High Stockbridge Commu…, WI 40
- Near Harrells Volunteer, NC 40
- Near Plain View Fire D…, NC 40
- Near Charter Township…, MI 40
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Paulsboro, NJ
- County
- Gloucester County
- FDID
- 08170
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Paulsboro Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #228 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,236 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Paulsboro Volunteer Fire Company is 2.6% of Gloucester County roster mass
The county lists 44 departments totaling 1,521 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 45% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Harrells Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 40 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.