Department profile

Volunteer

North Fork Fire Protection District

Buffalo Creek, CO · Jefferson County. North Fork Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 30 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

30
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

North Fork Fire Protection District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Colorado average.

Top 47%
national personnel size
+15%
vs. Colorado average
3
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
8/100
North Fork Fire Protection District

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
10 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
30 personnel · 3 stations

North Fork Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Buffalo Creek, CO (Jefferson County), with 3 stations and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,504 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,504 of 22,440
  • CO personnel rank #152 of 364
  • 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • 25 other listed departments in Jefferson County

North Fork Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 47% higher than 53% 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 05978 · North Fork Fire Protection District, CO 30 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-MID #10,504
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jamestown Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Jamestown Volunteer Fire Department, IN (+ 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
Buffalo Creek, CO
FDID
05978

Staffing vs the Colorado average

How North Fork Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #152 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,504 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 15% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
55
CO departments
575

County roster fringe

North Fork Fire Protection District is 2.3% of Jefferson County roster mass

The county lists 34 departments totaling 1,331 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Jamestown Volunteer Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel

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