Department profile
VolunteerEast Orchard Mesa Fire Protection District
Palisade, CO · Mesa County. East Orchard Mesa Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department and 18 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 18
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
East Orchard Mesa Fire Protection District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Colorado average.
- 18th pct.
- national personnel size
- -31%
- vs. Colorado average
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.
East Orchard Mesa Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Palisade, CO (Mesa County) and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,453 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #18,453 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #261 of 364
- 12 other listed departments in Mesa County
East Orchard Mesa Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
18 Top 82% higher than 18% 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 07725 · East Orchard Mesa Fire Protection District, CO 18 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 18
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #18,453
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brixey-Rockbridge…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Brixey-Rockbridge Volunteer Fire Department, MO (+ 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.
- East Orchard Mesa… (this dept) 18
- High Ocilla, GA 18
- Near Brixey-Rockbridge…, MO 18
- Near Doyle Township, MI 18
- Near Troutdale Fire an…, VA 18
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Palisade, CO
- County
- Mesa County
- FDID
- 07725
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How East Orchard Mesa Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #261 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,453 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County roster fringe
East Orchard Mesa Fire Protection District is 5.6% of Mesa County roster mass
The county lists 14 departments totaling 322 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Brixey-Rockbridge Volunteer Fire Department, MO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 18 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.