Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Springfield Fire Department

Springfield, NJ · Union County. Springfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 40 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.

40
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Springfield Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the New Jersey average.

Top 28%
national personnel size
+11%
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
83/100
Springfield Fire Department

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
40 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
40 personnel · 1 station

Springfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Springfield, NJ (Union County), with 1 station and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,338 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,338 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #231 of 487
  • 2.50 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 22 other listed departments in Union County

Springfield Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

40 Top 28% higher than 72% 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 20017 · Springfield Fire Department, NJ 40 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 40
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,338
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Medway-Grapeville…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Medway-Grapeville Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+ 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 NJ department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Springfield, NJ
FDID
20017

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Springfield Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #231 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,338 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 11% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

Springfield Fire Department is 3.1% of Union County roster mass

The county lists 33 departments totaling 1,286 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 82% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 40 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Medway-Grapeville Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 40 personnel

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