Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderPottersville Volunteer Fire Company
Pottersville, NJ · Somerset County. Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 25 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.
- 25
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the New Jersey average.
- 38th pct.
- national personnel size
- -31%
- 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 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.
Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Pottersville, NJ (Somerset County), with 1 station and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,849 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #13,849 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #398 of 487
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Somerset County
Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
25 Top 62% higher than 38% 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 18011 · Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company, NJ 25 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 25
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #13,849
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Proctor Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Proctor Volunteer Fire Department, AR (+ 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.
- Pottersville Volu… (this dept) 25
- High Vienna, SD 25
- Near Proctor Volunteer, AR 25
- Near Sammonsville, NY 25
- Near Nittany Valley Vo…, PA 25
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Pottersville, NJ
- County
- Somerset County
- FDID
- 18011
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #398 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,849 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company is 1.9% of Somerset County roster mass
The county lists 48 departments totaling 1,297 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 48% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 25 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Proctor Volunteer Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 25 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.