Department profile
OtherSea Isle City Fire Department
Sea Isle City, NJ · Cape May County. Sea Isle City Fire Department is a fire department and 28 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 28
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Sea Isle City Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the New Jersey average.
- 48th pct.
- national personnel size
- -22%
- 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.
Sea Isle City Fire Department is a fire department serving Sea Isle City, NJ (Cape May County) and 28 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,764 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #11,764 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #363 of 487
- 24 other listed departments in Cape May County
Sea Isle City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
28 Top 52% higher than 48% 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 05010 · Sea Isle City Fire Department, NJ 28 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 28
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #11,764
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of DE Soto F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of DE Soto Fire and Rescue, MO (+ 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.
- Sea Isle City (this dept) 28
- High Asbury Volunteer, AL 28
- Near City of DE Soto F…, MO 28
- Near Valley Springs, AR 28
- Near Harrison Township, MI 28
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Sea Isle City, NJ
- County
- Cape May County
- FDID
- 05010
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Sea Isle City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #363 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,764 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
Sea Isle City Fire Department is 3.1% of Cape May County roster mass
The county lists 34 departments totaling 892 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 56% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: City of DE Soto Fire and Rescue, MO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 28 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.