Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lakeside Fire Department

Lakeside, AZ · Navajo County. Lakeside Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 31 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.

31
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lakeside Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Arizona average.

Top 43%
national personnel size
+24%
vs. Arizona average
2
stations

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
23/100
Lakeside 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 D
15.5 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
31 personnel · 2 stations

Lakeside Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lakeside, AZ (Navajo County), with 2 stations and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,614 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,614 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #81 of 191
  • 6.45 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Navajo County

Lakeside Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

31 Top 43% higher than 57% 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 10072 · Lakeside Fire Department, AZ 31 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 31
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,614
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kingsburg
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Kingsburg Fire Department, CA (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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 VOLUNTEER
Location
Lakeside, AZ
FDID
10072

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Lakeside Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #81 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,614 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 24% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Lakeside Fire Department is 6.3% of Navajo County roster mass

The county lists 25 departments totaling 492 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 31 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Kingsburg Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 31 personnel

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