Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderLower Blue Fire Protection District
Heeney, CO · Summit County. Lower Blue Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department and 10 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.
- 10
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lower Blue Fire Protection District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Colorado average.
- 2nd pct.
- national personnel size
- -62%
- vs. Colorado average
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.
Lower Blue Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Heeney, CO (Summit County) and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,964 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #21,964 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #338 of 364
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 3 other listed departments in Summit County
Lower Blue Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
10 Top 98% higher than 2% 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 11735 · Lower Blue Fire Protection District, CO 10 personnel
PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 10
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #21,964
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hingham Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hingham Volunteer Fire Department, MT (+ 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 CO department.
- Lower Blue Fire P… (this dept) 10
- High Kneeland Volunteer, CA 10
- Near Hingham Volunteer, MT 10
- Near Bluff Fire Depart…, OK 10
- Near Rudyard Rural Fir…, MT 10
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Heeney, CO
- County
- Summit County
- FDID
- 11735
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Lower Blue Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #338 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,964 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County roster geometry
Summit County HIFLD mix around Lower Blue Fire Protection District
Summit County: 6 departments, 90 personnel (1 volunteer / 1 career / 1 combination); EMS flag on 83% of departments. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Hingham Volunteer Fire Department, MT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 10 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.