Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderMescal Volunteer Fire Department
Mescal, AZ · Cochise County. Mescal Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department and 18 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.
- 18
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Mescal Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Arizona average.
- 17th pct.
- national personnel size
- -28%
- vs. Arizona 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.
Mescal Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Mescal, AZ (Cochise County) and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,679 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #18,679 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #145 of 191
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in Cochise County
Mescal Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
18 Top 83% higher than 17% 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-MESCAL-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-AZ · Mescal Volunteer Fire Department, AZ 18 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 18
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #18,679
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Albany Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Albany Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 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.
- Mescal Volunteer (this dept) 18
- High Blackjack Volunte…, TX 18
- Near Albany Volunteer, TX 18
- Near Baileyville Volun…, ME 18
- Near Bennette Fire Dep…, TX 18
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Mescal, AZ
- County
- Cochise County
- Ambulances
- 1
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How Mescal Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #145 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,679 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
Mescal Volunteer Fire Department is 3.4% of Cochise County roster mass
The county lists 31 departments totaling 529 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Albany Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 18 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.