Department profile

Volunteer

Fort Lupton Fire Protection District

Fort Lupton, CO · Weld County. Fort Lupton Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 47 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

47
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Fort Lupton Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Colorado average.

Top 20%
national personnel size
+81%
vs. Colorado average
2
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
50/100
Fort Lupton Fire Protection District

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 C
23.5 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
47 personnel · 2 stations

Fort Lupton Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Fort Lupton, CO (Weld County), with 2 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,440 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,440 of 22,440
  • CO personnel rank #74 of 364
  • 4.26 stations per 100 personnel
  • 29 other listed departments in Weld County

Fort Lupton Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 12321 · Fort Lupton Fire Protection District, CO 47 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 47
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #4,440
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wintergreen Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Wintergreen Volunteer Fire Department / Wintergreen Volunteer Rescue Squad, VA (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Fort Lupton, CO
FDID
12321

Staffing vs the Colorado average

How Fort Lupton Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #74 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,440 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 81% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
55
CO departments
575

County roster fringe

Fort Lupton Fire Protection District is 6.2% of Weld County roster mass

The county lists 33 departments totaling 762 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 55% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 47 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Wintergreen Volunteer Fire Department / Wintergreen Volunteer Rescue Squad, VA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel

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