Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBuckley Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services-Dod
Aurora, CO · Arapahoe County. Buckley Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services-Dod is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 54 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.
- 54
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Buckley Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services-Dod pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Colorado average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +108%
- vs. Colorado average
- 2
- 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.
Buckley Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services-Dod is a Career (Paid) department serving Aurora, CO (Arapahoe County), with 2 stations and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,315 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,315 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #55 of 364
- 3.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Arapahoe County
Buckley Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services-Dod vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
54 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 00120 · Buckley Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services-Dod, CO 54 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 54
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,315
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Edmonds F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Edmonds Fire Department Administration, WA (+ 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 CO department.
- Buckley Air Force… (this dept) 54
- High Denison Fire Depa…, TX 54
- Near City of Edmonds F…, WA 54
- Near Clay Volunteer, KY 54
- Near Dekalb, IL 54
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Aurora, CO
- County
- Arapahoe County
- FDID
- 00120
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Buckley Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services-Dod's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #55 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,315 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County roster fringe
Buckley Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services-Dod is 5.9% of Arapahoe County roster mass
The county lists 15 departments totaling 914 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 73% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 54 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Edmonds Fire Department Administration, WA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 54 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.