Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAvra Valley Fire District
Marana, AZ · Pima County. Avra Valley Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Avra Valley Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Arizona average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +72%
- vs. Arizona average
- 2
- stations
- $5,102,118
- 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.
Avra Valley Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving Marana, AZ (Pima County), with 2 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,236 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $5,102,118.
- National personnel rank #5,236 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #44 of 191
- 4.65 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Pima County
Avra Valley Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 11032 · Avra Valley Fire District, AZ 43 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,236
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Colonial Voluntee…
- FEMA-HEAVY $5.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Colonial Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+ 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 AZ department.
- Avra Valley Fire… (this dept) 43
- High Springfield Towns…, OH 43
- Near Colonial Voluntee…, NJ 43
- Near Southern Webster…, MO 43
- Near Randall County Fi…, TX 43
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Marana, AZ
- County
- Pima County
- FDID
- 11032
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-07832 | $318,904.76 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FF-00247 | $2,463,239.2 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-01843 | $496,451 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FV-00750 | $190,476 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00061 | $0 |
| 2016 | EMW2014FH00354 | $1,461,900 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FO01262 | $171,147 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How Avra Valley Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #44 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,236 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 91
- AZ departments
- 322
County roster fringe
Avra Valley Fire District is 2.8% of Pima County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 1,534 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.65 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Colonial Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.