Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBernalillo County Fire and Rescue
Albuquerque, NM · Bernalillo County. Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 10 stations and 168 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.
- 168
- Total personnel
- 10
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Mexico average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1100%
- vs. New Mexico average
- 10
- stations
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.
Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Albuquerque, NM (Bernalillo County), with 10 stations and 168 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #326 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #326 of 22,440
- NM personnel rank #2 of 197
- 5.95 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 5 other listed departments in Bernalillo County
Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
168 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 01013 · Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue, NM 168 personnel · 10 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 168
- STA-MULTI 10 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #326
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brookline
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Brookline Fire Department, MA (+ 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 NM department.
- High Lenexa, KS 169
- Bernalillo County… (this dept) 168
- Near Brookline, MA 168
- Near West Islip, NY 168
- Near Murfreesboro, TN 168
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM
- County
- Bernalillo County
- FDID
- 01013
Staffing vs the New Mexico average
How Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #2 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #326 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 10
- State fire deaths/yr
- 32
- NM departments
- 446
County roster weight
Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue carries 72.7% of Bernalillo County HIFLD personnel
Among 6 listed departments (231 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 33% of the county count. County / state rollup.
5.95 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (10 stations / 168 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Brookline Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 168 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NM department.