Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Goodyear Fire Department

Goodyear, AZ · Maricopa County. Goodyear Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 44 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.

44
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Goodyear Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Arizona average.

Top 23%
national personnel size
+76%
vs. Arizona average
2
stations
$354,000
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
39/100
Goodyear Fire Department

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
22 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 D
$8,045 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
44 personnel · 2 stations

Goodyear Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Goodyear, AZ (Maricopa County), with 2 stations and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,132 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $354,000.

  • National personnel rank #5,132 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #41 of 191
  • 4.55 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 39 other listed departments in Maricopa County

Goodyear Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 08423 · Goodyear Fire Department, AZ 44 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 44
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,132
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cortez Fire Prote…
  • FEMA-LIGHT $354K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cortez Fire Protection District, CO (+ 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 AZ department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Goodyear, AZ
FDID
08423

FEMA Grant History

$354K
Cumulative funding (FY2008)
1
Awards
Year Award Amount
2008 EMW-2008-FO-0703 $354,000

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Goodyear Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #41 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,132 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 76% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Goodyear Fire Department is 2.8% of Maricopa County roster mass

The county lists 52 departments totaling 1,586 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 44 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cortez Fire Protection District, CO (+0 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 44 personnel

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