Department profile
Career (Paid)North Little Rock Fire Department
North Little Rock, AR · Pulaski County. North Little Rock Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 10 stations and 151 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 151
- Total personnel
- 10
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
North Little Rock Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arkansas average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +1062%
- vs. Arkansas average
- 10
- stations
- $4,984,132
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
North Little Rock Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving North Little Rock, AR (Pulaski County), with 10 stations and 151 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #406 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,984,132.
- National personnel rank #406 of 22,440
- AR personnel rank #2 of 604
- 6.62 stations per 100 personnel
- 24 other listed departments in Pulaski County
North Little Rock Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
151 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 60603 · North Little Rock Fire Department, AR 151 personnel · 10 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 151
- STA-MULTI 10 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #406
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Greenport
- FEMA-MID $5.0M
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Greenport Fire Department, NY (+ 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 AR department.
- North Little Rock (this dept) 151
- High Rocky Mount, NC 151
- Near Greenport, NY 151
- Near Elmendorf Fire an…, AK 151
- Near Somerville, MA 151
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- North Little Rock, AR
- County
- Pulaski County
- FDID
- 60603
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | EMW2016FO02107 | $600,000 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FV00626 | $363,637 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-02184 | $180,773 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FH00131 | $2,632,824 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FO01960 | $184,376 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0596 | $266,859 |
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FR-0009 | $755,664 |
| 2009 | EMW2008FF00022 | $-1 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Arkansas average
How North Little Rock Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arkansas. In-state it ranks #2 of 604 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #406 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 10
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- AR departments
- 1,168
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Pulaski County
County mix is mostly volunteer (16 volunteer / 3 career / 4 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (10 stations / 151 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Greenport Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 151 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AR department.