Department profile
Career (Paid)Ketchikan International Airport Fire Department
Ketchikan, AK · Ketchikan Gateway County. Ketchikan International Airport Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 8
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Ketchikan International Airport Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Alaska average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -53%
- vs. Alaska 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.
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.
Ketchikan International Airport Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Ketchikan, AK (Ketchikan Gateway County), with 1 station and 8 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,220 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,220 of 22,440
- AK personnel rank #112 of 119
- 12.50 stations per 100 personnel
- 6 other listed departments in Ketchikan Gateway County
Ketchikan International Airport Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
8 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 13250 · Ketchikan International Airport Fire Department, AK 8 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 8
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-LOWER #22,220
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Roosevelt Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Roosevelt Volunteer Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 AK department.
- Ketchikan Interna… (this dept) 8
- High Southern Inyo Fir…, CA 8
- Near Roosevelt Volunte…, NJ 8
- Near Fruitland, UT 8
- Near Roxbury Volunteer, VT 8
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Ketchikan, AK
- County
- Ketchikan Gateway County
- FDID
- 13250
Staffing vs the Alaska average
How Ketchikan International Airport Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alaska. In-state it ranks #112 of 119 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,220 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 18
- AK departments
- 286
County roster fringe
Ketchikan International Airport Fire Department is 5.4% of Ketchikan Gateway County roster mass
The county lists 9 departments totaling 149 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 44% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
12.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 8 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Roosevelt Volunteer Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 8 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AK department.