Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderMerino 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.
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.
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.
- Merino Volunteer (this dept) 22
- High Harsens Island, MI 22
- Near Hanna - Elmo Volu…, WY 22
- Near Liberty, NC 22
- Near Hopkins Fire Prot…, MO 22
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Merino, CO
- County
- Logan County
- 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.