Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderSomerdale Fire Department
Somerdale, NJ · Camden County. Somerdale Fire Department is a fire department and 50 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.
- 50
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Somerdale Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New Jersey average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +39%
- 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.
Somerdale Fire Department is a fire department serving Somerdale, NJ (Camden County) and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,048 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,048 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #132 of 487
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 32 other listed departments in Camden County
Somerdale Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 04652 · Somerdale Fire Department, NJ 50 personnel
PERS-MID · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,048
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cambridge Township
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cambridge Township Fire Department, MI (+ 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.
- Somerdale (this dept) 50
- High Friendship Fire F…, AL 50
- Near Cambridge Township, MI 50
- Near Valley Hill Fire…, NC 50
- Near Mount Mourne Volu…, NC 50
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Somerdale, NJ
- County
- Camden County
- FDID
- 04652
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Somerdale Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #132 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,048 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
Somerdale Fire Department is 2.2% of Camden County roster mass
The county lists 57 departments totaling 2,280 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 86% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Cambridge Township Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.