Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service

Gabbs, NV · Nye County. Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 15 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.

15
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Nevada average.

10th pct.
national personnel size
-44%
vs. Nevada 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
21/100
Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service

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 D
15 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
15 personnel · 1 station

Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department serving Gabbs, NV (Nye County), with 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,149 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,149 of 22,440
  • NV personnel rank #48 of 62
  • 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Nye County

Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service vs. the national personnel distribution

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

15 Top 90% higher than 10% 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 NV-GABBS-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-AND-AMBULANCE-SERV-NV · Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service, NV 15 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-MICRO 15
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #20,149
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alta Vista City
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Alta Vista City Fire Department, KS (+ 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 NV department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Gabbs, NV

Staffing vs the Nevada average

How Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nevada. In-state it ranks #48 of 62 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,149 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 44% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
40
NV departments
156

County roster fringe

Gabbs Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service is 8.1% of Nye County roster mass

The county lists 10 departments totaling 185 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 70% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 15 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Alta Vista City Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).

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

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