Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderLake Havasu City Fire Department
Lake Havasu City, AZ · Mohave County. Lake Havasu City Fire Department is a fire department and 48 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.
- 48
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lake Havasu City Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Arizona average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- +92%
- vs. Arizona average
- $4,998,005
- 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.
Lake Havasu City Fire Department is a fire department serving Lake Havasu City, AZ (Mohave County) and 48 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,291 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,998,005.
- National personnel rank #4,291 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #31 of 191
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Mohave County
Lake Havasu City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
48 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 AZ-LAKE-HAVASU-CITY-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-AZ · Lake Havasu City Fire Department, AZ 48 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 48
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,291
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 104th Fighter Win…
- FEMA-MID $5.0M
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 104th Fighter Wing Barnes Air National Guard Fire and Rescue-Dod, MA (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every AZ department.
- Lake Havasu City (this dept) 48
- High Grayslake Fire Pr…, IL 48
- Near 104th Fighter Win…, MA 48
- Near Central, SC 48
- Near Fort Detrick Fire…, MD 48
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Lake Havasu City, AZ
- County
- Mohave County
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-00558 | $4,102,575.07 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-03146 | $285,200 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-03709 | $418,654 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0267 | $191,576 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How Lake Havasu City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #31 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,291 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 91
- AZ departments
- 322
County roster fringe
Lake Havasu City Fire Department is 6.5% of Mohave County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 741 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: 104th Fighter Wing Barnes Air National Guard Fire and Rescue-Dod, MA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 48 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.