Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of las Vegas Fire and Rescue
Las Vegas, NV · Clark County. City of las Vegas Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 16 stations and 648 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.
- 648
- Total personnel
- 16
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of las Vegas Fire and Rescue pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Nevada average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +2300%
- vs. Nevada average
- 16
- stations
- $21,267,791
- 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.
City of las Vegas Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Las Vegas, NV (Clark County), with 16 stations and 648 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #41 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $21,267,791.
- National personnel rank #41 of 22,440
- NV personnel rank #2 of 62
- 2.47 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in Clark County
City of las Vegas Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
648 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 03002 · City of las Vegas Fire and Rescue, NV 648 personnel · 16 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 648
- STA-MULTI 16 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #41
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Omaha Fire and Re…
- FEMA-HEAVY $21.3M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Omaha Fire and Rescue, NE (+ 7 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 NV department.
- High Pasco County Fire…, FL 659
- Near Omaha Fire and Re…, NE 655
- City of las Vegas… (this dept) 648
- Near Hanover County Fi…, VA 631
- Low Tampa Fire and Re…, FL 628
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV
- County
- Clark County
- FDID
- 03002
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FF-01742 | $3,757,393.56 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-01373 | $8,284,760.46 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-00173 | $728,178.18 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-02799 | $393,186.9 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00214 | $2,297,183.88 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FH00505 | $5,807,088 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Nevada average
How City of las Vegas Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nevada. In-state it ranks #2 of 62 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #41 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 16
- State fire deaths/yr
- 40
- NV departments
- 156
County roster weight
City of las Vegas Fire and Rescue carries 32.3% of Clark County HIFLD personnel
Among 27 listed departments (2,009 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 48% of the county count. County / state rollup.
2.47 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (16 stations / 648 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Omaha Fire and Rescue, NE (+7 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 648 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NV department.