Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Town of Salem Fire Department

Salem, NH · Rockingham County. Town of Salem Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 64 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.

64
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Town of Salem Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Hampshire average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+156%
vs. New Hampshire average
3
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
43/100
Town of Salem 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 C
21.3 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
64 personnel · 3 stations

Town of Salem Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Salem, NH (Rockingham County), with 3 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,343 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,343 of 22,440
  • NH personnel rank #15 of 203
  • 4.69 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 45 other listed departments in Rockingham County

Town of Salem Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 73014 · Town of Salem Fire Department, NH 64 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 64
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,343
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cookeville
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cookeville Fire Department, TN (+ 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 NH department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Salem, NH
FDID
73014

Staffing vs the New Hampshire average

How Town of Salem Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Hampshire. In-state it ranks #15 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,343 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 156% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
10
NH departments
293

County roster fringe

Town of Salem Fire Department is 4.1% of Rockingham County roster mass

The county lists 53 departments totaling 1,569 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 64 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cookeville Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 64 personnel

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