Department profile

Volunteer

Diamond Star Fire Department

Payson, AZ · Gila County. Diamond Star Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

36
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 32%
national personnel size
+44%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
78/100
Diamond Star 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
36 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
36 personnel · 1 station

Diamond Star Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Payson, AZ (Gila County), with 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,270 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,270 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #61 of 191
  • 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
  • 18 other listed departments in Gila County

Diamond Star Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 04041 · Diamond Star Fire Department, AZ 36 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #7,270
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hitchcock Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department, SD (+ 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
Payson, AZ
FDID
04041

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Diamond Star Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #61 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,270 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 44% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Diamond Star Fire Department is 7.9% of Gila County roster mass

The county lists 23 departments totaling 457 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 78% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department, SD (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel

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