Jersey City Fire Department
9/22 evidence fields have a public source · latest source 2025. Blank fields mean no public source was found — never that a value is zero.
NFPA Staffing Benchmark
Staffing-only · not a response-time or legal assessmentMinimum 1 officer + 3 firefighters per company; 28 companies on duty daily.
Disclosed on-duty staffing (4 per company) meets or exceeds the NFPA 1750:2026 baseline of 4 per company, per City of Jersey City. Higher zone/risk company minimums (elevated 5, maximal 6), the effective response force, and response-time objectives were not assessed. Benchmark comparison only — not a legal compliance finding.
- Higher-risk (zone/hazard) staffing requirement not assessed
- Effective response force not assessed
- Response-time performance not assessed
Baseline company-staffing benchmark only. Higher zone/risk company minimums (elevated 5, maximal 6), the effective response force, and response-time objectives were not assessed. NFPA 1750 is a consensus standard unless adopted by the local Authority Having Jurisdiction.
NFPA 1750:2026 is a consensus deployment standard, not automatically a legal mandate. A department is legally bound only where its Authority Having Jurisdiction has adopted it. This assesses baseline company staffing only — not higher zone/risk staffing, effective response force, or response-time performance — and is not a legal finding.
Operational facts found (6 facts)
- Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
- 677 personnelVerified↗
- Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
- 0 membersVerified↗
- Stations
- 16 stationsPartial↗
- Annual incidents/calls
- 20000 calls/yrPartial↗
- Adopted fire-department budget
- $81,090,259 USDVerified↗
- Population / jurisdiction served
- 302,284 residentsVerified↗
Funding
Public funding identified — blank means no public source found, not $0.
- Operating budget
- $81.1MVerified↗
- Department revenue
- No public source found
- Donations / fundraising
- No public source found
- IRS Form 990 revenue
- No public source found
- Grants received
- No public source found
- Capital / apparatus
- No public source found
- Funding per resident
- 268Partial↗
CY2025 adopted appropriation within CAPS: “Fire & Emergency Services” Salaries & Wages $78,910,076 + Other Expenses $2,180,183 = $81,090,259. Read from the PDF text layer; the document carries a CERTIFICATION OF ADOPTED BUDGET and is titled “A Resolution to Adopt the Calendar Year 2025 Municipal Budget” (approved 2025-09-17). CALENDAR-YEAR basis confirmed — Jersey City moved off a State Fiscal Year at its FY2010 transition budget and has been on a calendar year since CY2011. CROSS-CHECKED TWICE: (1) the 2024 comparative column ($77,096,506 / $1,806,302) exactly matches the separately retrieved CY2024 adopted budget; (2) the amendment table inside the same resolution shows Fire S&W moving from $78,484,608 as introduced to $78,910,076 as adopted, reconciling to Sheet 15b. NOTHING TO EXCLUDE: there is no Uniform Fire Safety Act / Bureau of Fire Prevention line in the CY2025 budget (the CY2024 budget carried one at FCOA 25-266 — a different code — at $0, and it was dropped entirely for CY2025); despite the “Fire & Emergency Services” caption there is no separate EMS appropriation at 25-260/25-261 and no 25-242 line, so 25-265 is the sole fire appropriation. Dispatch (25-271), OEM (25-268), Public Safety Director (25-270) and Police (25-240) are separate FCOAs and are excluded. NOT the UFB-7 figure: the 2025 UFB-7 “Fire Fighters” Total Personnel Cost is $114,771,115.02 fully loaded (base $77,146,526.43 + OT $585,000 + pension $22,711,937.38 + health $13,202,454.58 + taxes $1,125,196.63) — that is not an appropriation and is not used here.
Budget figures are public evidence, not fully normalized spending comparisons. Each figure is labelled with the basis it was published on — budgets are only comparable where the basis matches.
Staffing
Public staffing evidence — blank means no public source found.
Readiness
Public readiness evidence.
ISO / PPC
ISO Public Protection Classification is not nationally complete; blank means no public rating found.
- PPC rating
- No public source found
- Effective year
- No public source found
Grants
Grant awards identified in public records — an empty list means none were found, not that none exist.
- Total grants identified
- $8.8MVerified↗
- FEMA AFG · 2024 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant — equipment$853,636↗
- FEMA SAFER · 2019 · Fund 54 additional firefighters over 3 years$6,693,300↗
- FEMA AFG · 2019 · Equipment: extractors, extrication sets, thermal imagers, radios$1,129,091↗
- DHS Port Security (PSGP) · 2019 · Fireboat maintenance$1,000,000↗
Transparency
What this department publicly publishes — a data-availability measure, separate from any fire-outcome score.
- Budget published
- Staffing published
- Call volume published
- ISO/PPC published (not published)
- Annual report published (no public source found)
- Grant data found
- Form 990 found (not published)