New Jersey Fire Department Personnel

Personnel (fire department membership) numbers vary by region, by state and even by county. Recruiting is critical to fire department success, see National Volunteer Fire Council’s Make Me a Firefighter and National Volunteer Fire Council’s Recruiting Resources. Check out how your department’s numbers compare to those around you, to see how your recruitment and retention investments are fairing.

This information is based solely upon fire departments that have registered with the National Fire Service Registry. If you have not registered your fire department, please do so, it is free and contributes to a complete picture of the fire services. Check out some Quick Facts from the registry.

Department Type

NOTE: In the USFA National Fire Service Registry data for New Jersey there are 9 departments NOT classified, and so NOT included in these statistics. Departments should register as Career, Mostly Career, Volunteer or Mostly Volunteer but we do not have it for these 9 departments .

Volunteer Departments of New Jersey

Here are the average numbers of volunteer firefighters for each county within New Jersey, as well as the maximum and minimum numbers for that county.

County	# Volunteer Departments	Average Firefighters	Highest #	Lowest #
Atlantic	32	35	80	12
Bergen	64	63	150	14
Burlington	45	43	150	9
Camden	33	42	113	8
Cape May	23	35	55	16
Cumberland	22	32	157	10
Essex	10	55	93	25
Gloucester	35	39	146	11
Hudson	2	57	90	23
Hunterdon	27	31	50	15
Mercer	18	46	90	25
Middlesex	39	49	200	15
Monmouth	61	66	350	20
Morris	50	50	165	20
Ocean	47	45	180	15
Passaic	18	71	275	18
Salem	18	34	61	25
Somerset	32	39	125	–
Sussex	27	41	80	17
Union	8	40	47	33
Warren	23	36	105	11

Career Departments of New Jersey

Here are the average numbers of career firefighters for each county within New Jersey, as well as the maximum and minimum numbers for that county.

County	# Career Departments	Average Firefighters	Highest #	Lowest #
Atlantic	7	63	235	16
Bergen	6	64	100	35
Burlington	3	36	60	13
Camden	6	66	184	8
Cape May	3	32	60	17
Cumberland	1	25	–	–
Essex	11	131	600	31
Gloucester	1	44	–	–
Hudson	6	213	561	56
Mercer	8	44	219	7
Middlesex	7	70	197	18
Monmouth	2	49	55	42
Morris	3	33	57	10
Ocean	2	30	54	5
Passaic	3	188	330	95
Somerset	2	19	37	1
Union	11	84	269	38

Department Types of New Jersey

Here are the department types by county for volunteer and career agencies in for New Jersey.

Looking for NFIRS FDIDs?

Here are the fire department identifiers (FDIDs) for agencies within New Jersey. NFIRS FDIDs are required for submitting NFIRS reports with mutual aid or automatic aid with those departments.

Need more NFIRS help?

Here are some useful ressources to learn more about NFIRS.

NFIRS Codes Cheat Sheet – NFIRS Coding – NFIRS Examples – FDIDs – POCs – NFIRS Transactions – NFIRS Modules – NFIRS Elements – NFIRS Rules – NFIRS Reference – NFIRS Compliant ?

You can also read this NFIRS 5.0 Complete Reference Guide, and NFIRS 5.0 Design documentation in order to have a deeper understanding of NFIRS 5.0. Here are also NFIRS 5.0 Forms ready for you to download and use.

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