Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderFort Carson Fire and Emergency Services
Fort Carson, CO · El Paso County. Fort Carson Fire and Emergency Services is a Career (Paid) department and 58 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.
- 58
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Fort Carson Fire and Emergency Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Colorado average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +123%
- 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.
Fort Carson Fire and Emergency Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Fort Carson, CO (El Paso County) and 58 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,827 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,827 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #47 of 364
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 33 other listed departments in El Paso County
Fort Carson Fire and Emergency Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
58 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 04145 · Fort Carson Fire and Emergency Services, CO 58 personnel
PERS-MID · STA-UNK · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 58
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,827
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wyoming
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Wyoming Fire Department, MI (+ 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 CO department.
- Fort Carson Fire… (this dept) 58
- High Rock Mills Volunt…, AL 58
- Near Wyoming, MI 58
- Near Lenox, MA 58
- Near Middle River Volu…, MD 58
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Fort Carson, CO
- County
- El Paso County
- FDID
- 04145
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Fort Carson Fire and Emergency Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #47 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,827 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
Fort Carson Fire and Emergency Services is 3.8% of El Paso County roster mass
The county lists 42 departments totaling 1,531 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Wyoming Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 58 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.