Department profile
VolunteerWestville Fire District
Westville, NJ · Gloucester County. Westville Fire District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 42 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Westville Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the New Jersey average.
- Top 25%
- national personnel size
- +17%
- vs. New Jersey average
- 1
- station
- $101,420
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Westville Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Westville, NJ (Gloucester County), with 1 station and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,640 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $101,420.
- National personnel rank #5,640 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #191 of 487
- 2.38 stations per 100 personnel
- 32 other listed departments in Gloucester County
Westville Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 08007 · Westville Fire District, NJ 42 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #5,640
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Arlington Townshi…
- FEMA-LIGHT $101K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Arlington Township-Bangor Township-Bangor City Joint Fire District Doing Business AS Bangor Community Fire Department, MI (+ 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.
- Westville Fire Di… (this dept) 42
- High South Bossier Vol…, LA 42
- Near Arlington Townshi…, MI 42
- Near Deland, FL 42
- Near Point Pleasant Fi…, KY 42
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Westville, NJ
- County
- Gloucester County
- FDID
- 08007
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FF-01288 | $101,420 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Westville Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #191 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,640 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Westville Fire District is 2.8% of Gloucester County roster mass
The county lists 44 departments totaling 1,521 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 45% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Arlington Township-Bangor Township-Bangor City Joint Fire District Doing Business AS Bangor Community Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.