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Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Patagonia, AZ · Santa Cruz County. Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a fire department and 21 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.

21
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Arizona average.

27th pct.
national personnel size
-16%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue

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
No station count on file for this department
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
21 personnel

Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a fire department serving Patagonia, AZ (Santa Cruz County) and 21 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,445 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #16,445 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #129 of 191
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 6 other listed departments in Santa Cruz County

Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

21 Top 73% higher than 27% 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-PATAGONIA-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-AND-RESCUE-AZ · Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue, AZ 21 personnel

PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 21
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #16,445
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Almena Area
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 2/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Almena Area Fire Department, KS (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Patagonia, AZ
Ambulances
1

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #129 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,445 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 16% below the state average
Stations
Not reported
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 8.9% of Santa Cruz County roster mass

The county lists 10 departments totaling 235 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

Photo-finish peer: Almena Area Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide departments near 21 personnel

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

Almena Area Fire Department, KS 21 Ashmore Fire Protection District, IL 21 Bagwell Community Volunteer Fire Department, TX 21 Belmont Volunteer Fire Department, ME 21

Frequently Asked Questions

How many firefighters does Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue have?

Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue has 21 total personnel according to HIFLD data. This is 16% below the Arizona average of 25 per department. Among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel, it ranks #16,445 of 22,440 by total personnel (same basis as the largest-departments ranking). Within AZ, it ranks #129 of 191 by personnel.

Does Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue provide EMS services?

Yes, Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue provides Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in addition to fire response.

How many fire stations does Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue operate?

Station count data for Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue is not available in the HIFLD database.

What type of fire department is Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue?

Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a fire department serving Santa Cruz County, AZ.

How many fire departments are in Arizona?

Arizona has 322 fire departments with 7,987 total personnel. 35% are volunteer departments.

Related guides

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HIFLD/USFA registry extract, informational only, not a readiness rating.