Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderWildwood Fire Department
Wildwood, NJ · Cape May County. Wildwood Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 22 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.
- 22
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Wildwood Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the New Jersey average.
- 28th pct.
- national personnel size
- -39%
- vs. New Jersey 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.
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.
Wildwood Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Wildwood, NJ (Cape May County), with 3 stations and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,079 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #16,079 of 22,440
- NJ personnel rank #416 of 487
- 13.64 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Cape May County
Wildwood Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
22 Top 72% higher than 28% 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 05003 · Wildwood Fire Department, NJ 22 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 22
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #16,079
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Benton Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: North Benton Volunteer Fire Department, MS (+ 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.
- Wildwood (this dept) 22
- High Berrendo Volunteer, NM 22
- Near North Benton Volu…, MS 22
- Near Canada Volunteer, NC 22
- Near Florence, SD 22
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Wildwood, NJ
- County
- Cape May County
- Ambulances
- 3
- FDID
- 05003
Staffing vs the New Jersey average
How Wildwood Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #416 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,079 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 70
- NJ departments
- 999
County roster fringe
Wildwood Fire Department is 2.5% of Cape May County roster mass
The county lists 34 departments totaling 892 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 56% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
13.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 22 roster).
Photo-finish peer: North Benton Volunteer Fire Department, MS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 22 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.