Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Bullhead 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
36/100
Bullhead City 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 D
19.2 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
96 personnel · 5 stations

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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Bullhead City, AZ
FDID
09021

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2015–2023)
0
Awards
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.

▲ 284% above the state average
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).

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Nationwide career peers near 96 personnel

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