Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Buckeye Fire Department

Buckeye, AZ · Maricopa County. Buckeye Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 86 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.

86
Total personnel
6
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Buckeye Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arizona average.

Top 6%
national personnel size
+244%
vs. Arizona average
6
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
19/100
Buckeye Fire Department

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 F
14.3 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
86 personnel · 6 stations

Buckeye Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Buckeye, AZ (Maricopa County), with 6 stations and 86 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,256 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,256 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #11 of 191
  • 6.98 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 39 other listed departments in Maricopa County

Buckeye Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

86 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 08041 · Buckeye Fire Department, AZ 86 personnel · 6 stations

PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 86
  • STA-MULTI 6 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,256
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ross Township
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Ross Township Fire Department, OH (+ 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
CAREER
Location
Buckeye, AZ
FDID
08041

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Buckeye Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #11 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,256 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 244% above the state average
Stations
6
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Buckeye Fire Department is 5.4% of Maricopa County roster mass

The county lists 52 departments totaling 1,586 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.98 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 86 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Ross Township Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide career peers near 86 personnel

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