Department profile

Volunteer

Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company

Three Bridges, NJ · Hunterdon County. Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 32 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

32
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the New Jersey average.

Top 42%
national personnel size
-11%
vs. New Jersey average
2
stations

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
25/100
Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company

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 D
16 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
32 personnel · 2 stations

Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Three Bridges, NJ (Hunterdon County), with 2 stations and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,352 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,352 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #309 of 487
  • 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
  • 21 other listed departments in Hunterdon County

Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 42% higher than 58% 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 10330 · Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company, NJ 32 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #9,352
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bartlett Fire Dep…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bartlett Fire Department - Glen Station, NH (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Three Bridges, NJ
FDID
10330

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #309 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,352 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 11% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company is 3.6% of Hunterdon County roster mass

The county lists 34 departments totaling 895 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 59% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bartlett Fire Department - Glen Station, NH (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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