Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCandy Kitchen Volunteer Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services
Ramah, NM · Cibola County. Candy Kitchen Volunteer Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 34 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.
- 34
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Candy Kitchen Volunteer Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Mexico average.
- Top 37%
- national personnel size
- +143%
- vs. New Mexico 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.
Candy Kitchen Volunteer Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Ramah, NM (Cibola County), with 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,279 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,279 of 22,440
- NM personnel rank #30 of 197
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 12 other listed departments in Cibola County
Candy Kitchen Volunteer Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
34 Top 37% higher than 63% 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 06015 · Candy Kitchen Volunteer Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services, NM 34 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 34
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,279
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clifton
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Clifton Fire Department, AZ (+ 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 NM department.
- Candy Kitchen Vol… (this dept) 34
- High Nevada Division o…, NV 34
- Near Clifton, AZ 34
- Near Fork Mountain Fir…, NC 34
- Near Cook Springs Volu…, AL 34
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Ramah, NM
- County
- Cibola County
- FDID
- 06015
Staffing vs the New Mexico average
How Candy Kitchen Volunteer Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #30 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,279 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 32
- NM departments
- 446
County roster geometry
Cibola County HIFLD mix around Candy Kitchen Volunteer Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services
Cibola County: 15 departments, 141 personnel (6 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 80% of departments. County / state rollup.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 34 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Clifton Fire Department, AZ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 34 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NM department.