Department profile
VolunteerCrestone Volunteer Fire Department
Crestone, CO · Saguache County. Crestone Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 7 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 7
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Crestone Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Colorado average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -73%
- vs. Colorado 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.
Crestone Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Crestone, CO (Saguache County), with 1 station and 7 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,274 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,274 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #353 of 364
- 14.29 stations per 100 personnel
- 6 other listed departments in Saguache County
Crestone Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
7 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 10920 · Crestone Volunteer Fire Department, CO 7 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 7
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #22,274
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ardmore Air Park
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Ardmore Air Park Fire Department, OK (+ 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 CO department.
- Crestone Volunteer (this dept) 7
- High Henry County Depa…, VA 7
- Near Ardmore Air Park, OK 7
- Near Naylor Volunteer, GA 7
- Near Kingston Volunteer, NV 7
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Crestone, CO
- County
- Saguache County
- FDID
- 10920
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Crestone Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #353 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,274 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County roster fringe
Crestone Volunteer Fire Department is 6.9% of Saguache County roster mass
The county lists 7 departments totaling 101 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
14.29 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 7 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Ardmore Air Park Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 7 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.