Department profile

Combination

Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire

Gunnison, CO · Gunnison County. Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire is a Combination department, 1 station and 11 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

11
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Colorado average.

3rd pct.
national personnel size
-58%
vs. Colorado 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
9/100
Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire

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 F
11 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
11 personnel · 1 station

Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire is a Combination department serving Gunnison, CO (Gunnison County), with 1 station and 11 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,718 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,718 of 22,440
  • CO personnel rank #330 of 364
  • 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
  • 7 other listed departments in Gunnison County

Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire vs. the national personnel distribution

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

11 Top 97% higher than 3% 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 05135 · Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire, CO 11 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-COMB · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 11
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-COMB Combination
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #21,718
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Inter City Fire P…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Inter City Fire Protection District, MO (+ 0 personnel)

Combination-staffed 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
COMBINATION
Location
Gunnison, CO
FDID
05135

Staffing vs the Colorado average

How Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #330 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,718 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 58% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
55
CO departments
575

County roster fringe

Gunnison-Crested Butte Aircraft Rescue and Fire is 7.3% of Gunnison County roster mass

The county lists 9 departments totaling 151 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 33% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 11 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Inter City Fire Protection District, MO (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Almont Volunteer Fire Department
Almont · volunteer
Arrowhead Volunteer Fire Department
Cimarron · volunteer
Crested Butte Fire Protection District
Crested Butte · volunteer
Gunnison Volunteer Fire Department
Gunnison · volunteer
Ohio City Fire Department
Ohio City · volunteer
Pitkin Volunteer Fire Department
Pitkin · volunteer
All CO departments →

Nationwide combination-staffed peers near 11 personnel

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