Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Avra 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
69/100
Avra Valley Fire District

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.

Staffing capacity C
21.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment A
$118,654 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
43 personnel · 2 stations

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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Marana, AZ
FDID
11032

FEMA Grant History

$5.1M
Cumulative funding (FY2014–2024)
7
Awards
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.

▲ 72% above the state average
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).

Nationwide career peers near 43 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.