Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCentral Yavapai Fire District
Prescott Valley, AZ · Yavapai County. Central Yavapai Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 126 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.
- 126
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Central Yavapai Fire District pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arizona average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +404%
- vs. Arizona average
- 8
- stations
- $418,849
- 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.
Central Yavapai Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving Prescott Valley, AZ (Yavapai County), with 8 stations and 126 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #594 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $418,849.
- National personnel rank #594 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #5 of 191
- 6.35 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 29 other listed departments in Yavapai County
Central Yavapai Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
126 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 14052 · Central Yavapai Fire District, AZ 126 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 126
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #594
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lake Charles
- FEMA-LIGHT $419K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lake Charles Fire Department, LA (+ 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.
- Central Yavapai F… (this dept) 126
- High Worcester County…, MD 126
- Near Lake Charles, LA 126
- Near Harrisburg Bureau…, PA 126
- Near Swansea, MA 126
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Prescott Valley, AZ
- County
- Yavapai County
- FDID
- 14052
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | EMW2013FH00329 | $418,849 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How Central Yavapai Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #5 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #594 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 91
- AZ departments
- 322
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Yavapai County
County mix is mostly volunteer (16 volunteer / 5 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 126 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lake Charles Fire Department, LA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 126 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.