Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

El Dorado Fire Department/ Advanced Life Support

El Dorado, AR · Union County. El Dorado Fire Department/ Advanced Life Support is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 55 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.

55
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

El Dorado Fire Department/ Advanced Life Support pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arkansas average.

Top 14%
national personnel size
+323%
vs. Arkansas average
4
stations

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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
17/100
El Dorado Fire Department/ Advanced Life Support

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 F
13.8 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
55 personnel · 4 stations

El Dorado Fire Department/ Advanced Life Support is a Career (Paid) department serving El Dorado, AR (Union County), with 4 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,132 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,132 of 22,440
  • AR personnel rank #22 of 604
  • 7.27 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 15 other listed departments in Union County

El Dorado Fire Department/ Advanced Life Support vs. the national personnel distribution

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

55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 70600 · El Dorado Fire Department/ Advanced Life Support, AR 55 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 55
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,132
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Deerfield Fire De…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Deerfield Fire Department / Deerfield Rescue Squad, NH (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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 AR department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
El Dorado, AR
FDID
70600

Staffing vs the Arkansas average

How El Dorado Fire Department/ Advanced Life Support's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #22 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,132 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 323% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
68
AR departments
1,168

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Union County

County mix is mostly volunteer (14 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

7.27 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 55 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Deerfield Fire Department / Deerfield Rescue Squad, NH (+0 personnel).

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

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Hibanks Volunteer Fire Department
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Huttig Volunteer Fire Department
Huttig · volunteer
Junction City Volunteer Fire Department
Junction City · volunteer
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Nationwide career peers near 55 personnel

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