Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderColville Tribal Fire and Rescue
Nespelem, WA · Okanogan County. Colville Tribal Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Colville Tribal Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount in line with the Washington average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +14%
- vs. Washington average
- 3
- 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.
Colville Tribal Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Nespelem, WA (Okanogan County), with 3 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,460 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,460 of 22,440
- WA personnel rank #55 of 120
- 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Okanogan County
Colville Tribal Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 24M03 · Colville Tribal Fire and Rescue, WA 42 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,460
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aldine Fire and R…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Aldine Fire and Rescue, TX (+ 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 WA department.
- Colville Tribal F… (this dept) 42
- High City of Terrell, TX 42
- Near Aldine Fire and R…, TX 42
- Near Arthur Rural Fire…, IL 42
- Near Bonham Fire Depar…, TX 42
Department Profile
- Type
- MAINLY PAID PROVIDERS
- Location
- Nespelem, WA
- County
- Okanogan County
- FDID
- 24M03
Staffing vs the Washington average
How Colville Tribal Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Washington. In-state it ranks #55 of 120 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,460 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- WA departments
- 483
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Okanogan County
County mix is mostly volunteer (10 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Aldine Fire and Rescue, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WA department.