Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBurning Mountains Fire Protection District
Silt, CO · Garfield County. Burning Mountains Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Burning Mountains Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Colorado average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +65%
- vs. Colorado average
- 3
- 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.
Burning Mountains Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Silt, CO (Garfield County), with 3 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,249 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,249 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #86 of 364
- 6.98 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 9 other listed departments in Garfield County
Burning Mountains Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 04540 · Burning Mountains Fire Protection District, CO 43 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,249
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bobo Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bobo Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Burning Mountains… (this dept) 43
- High Cloverdale Volunt…, AL 43
- Near Bobo Volunteer, AL 43
- Near Toney Volunteer, AL 43
- Near Clinton, MO 43
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Silt, CO
- County
- Garfield County
- FDID
- 04540
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Burning Mountains Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #86 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,249 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County staffing outlier
Volunteer island in a combination-heavy Garfield County
County mix is mostly combination (1 volunteer / 2 career / 3 combination), while this page is typed volunteer. County / state rollup.
6.98 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bobo Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.