Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pennington Fire Company

Pennington, NJ · Mercer County. Pennington Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 45 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.

45
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pennington Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New Jersey average.

Top 22%
national personnel size
+25%
vs. New Jersey average
1
station

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
PlainFireData Composite Score
89/100
Pennington Fire Company

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.

Staffing capacity A
45 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
45 personnel · 1 station

Pennington Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Pennington, NJ (Mercer County), with 1 station and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,961 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,961 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #167 of 487
  • 2.22 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 17 other listed departments in Mercer County

Pennington Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 11051 · Pennington Fire Company, NJ 45 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,961
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Eastern Garrett C…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue, MD (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Pennington, NJ
FDID
11051

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Pennington Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #167 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,961 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 25% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

Pennington Fire Company is 3.9% of Mercer County roster mass

The county lists 32 departments totaling 1,160 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Eastern Garrett County Volunteer Fire and Rescue, MD (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.