Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Merino Volunteer Fire Department

Merino, CO · Logan County. Merino Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 22 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.

22
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Merino Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Colorado average.

30th pct.
national personnel size
-15%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Merino Volunteer 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
No station count on file for this department
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
22 personnel

Merino Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Merino, CO (Logan County) and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,815 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #15,815 of 22,440
  • CO personnel rank #223 of 364
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 5 other listed departments in Logan County

Merino Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

22 Top 70% higher than 30% 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 07522 · Merino Volunteer Fire Department, CO 22 personnel

PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 22
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #15,815
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hanna - Elmo Volu…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Hanna - Elmo Volunteer Fire Department, WY (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Merino, CO
FDID
07522

Staffing vs the Colorado average

How Merino Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #223 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,815 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 15% below the state average
Stations
Not reported
State fire deaths/yr
55
CO departments
575

County roster geometry

Logan County HIFLD mix around Merino Volunteer Fire Department

Logan County: 6 departments, 122 personnel (4 volunteer / 0 career / 1 combination); EMS flag on 67% of departments. County / state rollup.

Photo-finish peer: Hanna - Elmo Volunteer Fire Department, WY (+0 personnel).

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

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Peetz Volunteer Fire Department
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Sterling Fire and Rescue
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Willard Fire Department
Willard · other
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel

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