Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPope Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod
Pope Air Force Base, NC · Cumberland County. Pope Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 73 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.
- 73
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Pope Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +181%
- vs. North Carolina 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 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.
Pope Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department serving Pope Air Force Base, NC (Cumberland County), with 1 station and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,772 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,772 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #47 of 932
- 1.37 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 25 other listed departments in Cumberland County
Pope Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 02623 · Pope Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod, NC 73 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 73
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,772
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Somers Volunteer…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Somers Volunteer Fire and Ambulance, CT (+ 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 NC department.
- Pope Air Force Ba… (this dept) 73
- High Jamestown, RI 73
- Near Somers Volunteer…, CT 73
- Near New Haven-Adams T…, IN 73
- Near Washington, MO 73
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Pope Air Force Base, NC
- County
- Cumberland County
- FDID
- 02623
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Pope Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #47 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,772 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Pope Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is 4.9% of Cumberland County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 1,486 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.37 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 73 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Somers Volunteer Fire and Ambulance, CT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 73 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.