Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Cottonwood Fire Department

Cottonwood, AZ · Yavapai County. Cottonwood Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 35 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.

35
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Cottonwood Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Arizona average.

Top 34%
national personnel size
+40%
vs. Arizona 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
PlainFireData Composite Score
84/100
Cottonwood Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity B
35 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness A
9 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
35 personnel · 1 station

Cottonwood Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Cottonwood, AZ (Yavapai County), with 1 station and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,699 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,699 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #67 of 191
  • 2.86 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 29 other listed departments in Yavapai County

Cottonwood Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

35 Top 34% higher than 66% 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 14102 · Cottonwood Fire Department, AZ 35 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 35
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #7,699
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Chatham Township…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Chatham Township Volunteer Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 AZ department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Cottonwood, AZ
FDID
14102

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2009)
1
Awards
Year Award Amount
2009 EMW2008FF00662 $-504

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Cottonwood Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #67 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,699 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 40% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Cottonwood Fire Department is 3.6% of Yavapai County roster mass

The county lists 36 departments totaling 983 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 86% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.86 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 35 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Chatham Township Volunteer Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 35 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.