Department profile
Career (Paid)City of Roswell Fire Department
Roswell, NM · Chaves County. City of Roswell Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 88 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 88
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Roswell Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Mexico average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +529%
- vs. New Mexico average
- 6
- stations
- $413,636
- 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 Roswell Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Roswell, NM (Chaves County), with 6 stations and 88 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,212 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $413,636.
- National personnel rank #1,212 of 22,440
- NM personnel rank #5 of 197
- 6.82 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in Chaves County
City of Roswell Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
88 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 05061 · City of Roswell Fire Department, NM 88 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 88
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,212
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Rio Tinto Energy…
- FEMA-LIGHT $414K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Rio Tinto Energy America - Cordero Rojo Coal Company Emergency Response Team, WY (+ 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.
- City of Roswell (this dept) 88
- High Fargo, ND 88
- Near Rio Tinto Energy…, WY 88
- Near Hazlehurst, GA 88
- Near Gloucester, MA 88
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Roswell, NM
- County
- Chaves County
- FDID
- 05061
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-19624 | $413,636.36 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the New Mexico average
How City of Roswell Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #5 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,212 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 32
- NM departments
- 446
County roster weight
City of Roswell Fire Department carries 40.6% of Chaves County HIFLD personnel
Among 16 listed departments (217 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 38% of the county count. County / state rollup.
6.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 88 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Rio Tinto Energy America - Cordero Rojo Coal Company Emergency Response Team, WY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 88 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NM department.