Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCarlsbad Fire Department
Carlsbad, NM · Eddy County. Carlsbad Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Carlsbad Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Mexico average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +236%
- vs. New Mexico average
- 6
- 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.
Carlsbad Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Carlsbad, NM (Eddy County), with 6 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,406 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,406 of 22,440
- NM personnel rank #13 of 197
- 12.77 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 19 other listed departments in Eddy County
Carlsbad Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 15019 · Carlsbad Fire Department, NM 47 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,406
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Westwood Fire Com…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Westwood Fire Company, PA (+ 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 NM department.
- Carlsbad (this dept) 47
- High Florham Park Volu…, NJ 47
- Near Westwood Fire Com…, PA 47
- Near Cedar Hammock Fir…, FL 47
- Near Morristown, NJ 47
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Carlsbad, NM
- County
- Eddy County
- FDID
- 15019
Staffing vs the New Mexico average
How Carlsbad Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #13 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,406 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 32
- NM departments
- 446
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Eddy County
County mix is mostly volunteer (11 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
12.77 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Westwood Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NM department.