Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderNational Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Painted Desert Entrance Station
Petrified Forest National Park, AZ · Apache County. National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Painted Desert Entrance Station is a fire department and 4 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.
- 4
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Painted Desert Entrance Station pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Arizona average.
- 0th pct.
- national personnel size
- -84%
- 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.
National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Painted Desert Entrance Station is a fire department serving Petrified Forest National Park, AZ (Apache County) and 4 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,401 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,401 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #191 of 191
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 14 other listed departments in Apache County
National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Painted Desert Entrance Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
4 Top 100% in the bottom 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 AZ-NATIONAL-PARK-SERVICE-PETRIFIED-FOREST-NATIONAL-PA-AZ-2 · National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Painted Desert Entrance Station, AZ 4 personnel
PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 4
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #22,401
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Nelson Volunteer…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Nelson Volunteer Fire Company, WI (+ 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.
- National Park Ser… (this dept) 4
- High San Angelo, TX 4
- Near Nelson Volunteer…, WI 4
- Near Sheridan Lake, CO 4
- Near Rocky Mount-Wilso…, NC 4
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
- County
- Apache County
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Painted Desert Entrance Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #191 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,401 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
National Park Service - Petrified Forest National Park - Painted Desert Entrance Station is 1.9% of Apache County roster mass
The county lists 17 departments totaling 215 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Nelson Volunteer Fire Company, WI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 4 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.