Its headquarters are co-located with West Hartford fire station in Cramlington.

[1] The Local Government Reorganisation act (1971), which came into effect in 1974, saw the transfer of four of the busiest NFB stations (Gosforth, Newburn, Wallsend and Whitley Bay), into the newly formed Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service.

[2] The current name was adopted in 1982, reflecting the type of callouts the service was receiving.

In the period from October 2017 to September 2018, Northumberland had 3,404 callouts of which 44% were fires, 37% were false alarms, and 19% were non-fire incidents.

On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows: The service's fire stations, which are crewed by wholetime firefighters, retained firefighters, or a combination of the two, are listed below.