Department profile

Combination

Nucla Naturita Volunteer Fire Department

Nucla, CO · Montrose County. Nucla Naturita Volunteer Fire Department is a Combination department, 3 stations and 32 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

32
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Nucla Naturita Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Colorado average.

Top 41%
national personnel size
+23%
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
9/100
Nucla Naturita Volunteer Fire Department

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
10.7 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
32 personnel · 3 stations

Nucla Naturita Volunteer Fire Department is a Combination department serving Nucla, CO (Montrose County), with 3 stations and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,248 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,248 of 22,440
  • CO personnel rank #133 of 364
  • 9.38 stations per 100 personnel
  • 7 other listed departments in Montrose County

Nucla Naturita Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 41% higher than 59% 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 08530 · Nucla Naturita Volunteer Fire Department, CO 32 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-COMB · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-COMB Combination
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #9,248
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dublin
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Dublin Fire Department, GA (+ 0 personnel)

Combination-staffed 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
COMBINATION
Location
Nucla, CO
FDID
08530

Staffing vs the Colorado average

How Nucla Naturita Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #133 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,248 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 23% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
55
CO departments
575

County staffing outlier

Combination island in a volunteer-heavy Montrose County

County mix is mostly volunteer (3 volunteer / 1 career / 2 combination), while this page is typed combination. County / state rollup.

9.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Dublin Fire Department, GA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide combination-staffed peers near 32 personnel

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