Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance

Petrified Forest National Park, AZ · Navajo County. National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 7 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.

7
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Arizona average.

1st pct.
national personnel size
-72%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
5/100
National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance

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 F
3.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness F
0.5 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
7 personnel · 2 stations

National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance is a Career (Paid) department serving Petrified Forest National Park, AZ (Navajo County), with 2 stations and 7 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,296 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,296 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #183 of 191
  • 28.57 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Navajo County

National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance vs. the national personnel distribution

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

7 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 01217 · National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance, AZ 7 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MICRO · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 7
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #22,296
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Michigan Departme…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Michigan Department of Natural Resources - Platte River Office, MI (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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 CAREER
Location
Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
FDID
01217

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #183 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,296 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 72% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Rainbow Forest Entrance is 1.4% 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.

28.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 7 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Michigan Department of Natural Resources - Platte River Office, MI (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 7 personnel

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