Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGlenwood Springs Fire Department
Glenwood Springs, CO · Garfield County. Glenwood Springs Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 27 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.
- 27
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Glenwood Springs Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Colorado average.
- 46th pct.
- national personnel size
- +4%
- vs. Colorado average
- 3
- stations
- $918,214
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Glenwood Springs Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Glenwood Springs, CO (Garfield County), with 3 stations and 27 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #12,056 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $918,214.
- National personnel rank #12,056 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #175 of 364
- 11.11 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 9 other listed departments in Garfield County
Glenwood Springs Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
27 Top 54% higher than 46% 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 04520 · Glenwood Springs Fire Department, CO 27 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 27
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #12,056
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Leelanau-Northpor…
- FEMA-MID $918K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Leelanau-Northport Emergency Services, 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.
- Glenwood Springs (this dept) 27
- High Millennium Fire D…, NC 27
- Near Leelanau-Northpor…, MI 27
- Near New Castle Volunt…, VA 27
- Near Eastman, GA 27
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Glenwood Springs, CO
- County
- Garfield County
- FDID
- 04520
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-06454 | $918,214 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Glenwood Springs Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #175 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #12,056 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County roster fringe
Glenwood Springs Fire Department is 9.9% of Garfield County roster mass
The county lists 12 departments totaling 272 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 75% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
11.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 27 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Leelanau-Northport Emergency Services, MI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 27 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.