Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderColorado Springs Fire Department Complex
Colorado Springs, CO · El Paso County. Colorado Springs Fire Department Complex is a Career (Paid) department, 20 stations and 490 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.
- 490
- Total personnel
- 20
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Colorado Springs Fire Department Complex pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Colorado average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1785%
- vs. Colorado average
- 20
- 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.
Colorado Springs Fire Department Complex is a Career (Paid) department serving Colorado Springs, CO (El Paso County), with 20 stations and 490 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #58 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #58 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #2 of 364
- 4.08 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 33 other listed departments in El Paso County
Colorado Springs Fire Department Complex vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
490 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 04118 · Colorado Springs Fire Department Complex, CO 490 personnel · 20 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 490
- STA-MULTI 20 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #58
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Santa Fe County V…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Santa Fe County Volunteer Fire - Edgewood District, NM ( -1 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 CO department.
- High Virginia Beach, VA 503
- Near Norfolk Fire - Re…, VA 498
- Colorado Springs… (this dept) 490
- Near Santa Fe County V…, NM 489
- Low Montgomery, AL 478
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO
- County
- El Paso County
- FDID
- 04118
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Colorado Springs Fire Department Complex's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #2 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #58 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 20
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County roster weight
Colorado Springs Fire Department Complex carries 32.0% of El Paso County HIFLD personnel
Among 42 listed departments (1,531 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 26% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.08 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (20 stations / 490 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Santa Fe County Volunteer Fire - Edgewood District, NM (-1 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 490 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.