Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBullhead City Fire Department
Bullhead City, AZ · Mohave County. Bullhead City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 96 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.
- 96
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bullhead City Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arizona average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +284%
- vs. Arizona average
- 5
- stations
- $1,166,780
- 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.
Bullhead City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Bullhead City, AZ (Mohave County), with 5 stations and 96 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,023 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,166,780.
- National personnel rank #1,023 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #10 of 191
- 5.21 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Mohave County
Bullhead City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
96 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 09021 · Bullhead City Fire Department, AZ 96 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 96
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,023
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Livonia Fire and…
- FEMA-MID $1.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Livonia Fire and Rescue, MI (+ 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.
- Bullhead City (this dept) 96
- High Hebron Volunteer, CT 96
- Near Livonia Fire and…, MI 96
- Near Rehoboth, MA 96
- Near Rogers, AR 96
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Bullhead City, AZ
- County
- Mohave County
- FDID
- 09021
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-01219 | $463,140.48 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FR00121 | $703,640 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How Bullhead City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #10 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,023 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 91
- AZ departments
- 322
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Mohave County
County mix is mostly volunteer (12 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.21 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 96 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Livonia Fire and Rescue, MI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 96 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.