Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCotton City Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services
Animas, NM · Hidalgo County. Cotton City Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 8 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.
- 8
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cotton City Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the New Mexico average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -43%
- vs. New Mexico average
- 1
- station
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.
Cotton City Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Animas, NM (Hidalgo County), with 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,194 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,194 of 22,440
- NM personnel rank #197 of 197
- 12.50 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 6 other listed departments in Hidalgo County
Cotton City Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
8 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 23013 · Cotton City Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, NM 8 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 8
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #22,194
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hagerstown Region…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hagerstown Regional Airport Fire Department, MD (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Cotton City Volun… (this dept) 8
- High Dewey Volunteer, SD 8
- Near Hagerstown Region…, MD 8
- Near Long Valley / Ord…, UT 8
- Near Minburn Volunteer, IA 8
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Animas, NM
- County
- Hidalgo County
- FDID
- 23013
Staffing vs the New Mexico average
How Cotton City Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #197 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,194 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 32
- NM departments
- 446
County roster fringe
Cotton City Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is 9.0% of Hidalgo County roster mass
The county lists 8 departments totaling 89 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 25% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
12.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 8 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hagerstown Regional Airport Fire Department, MD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 8 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NM department.