Department profile
Career (Paid)Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod
Colorado Springs, CO · El Paso County. Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department and 86 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 86
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Colorado average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +231%
- vs. Colorado 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.
Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department serving Colorado Springs, CO (El Paso County) and 86 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,276 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,276 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #24 of 364
- 33 other listed departments in El Paso County
Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
86 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 04166 · Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod, CO 86 personnel
PERS-MID · STA-UNK · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 86
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #1,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gloucester City
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Gloucester City Fire Department, NJ (+ 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 CO department.
- Peterson Air Forc… (this dept) 86
- High Orion Township, MI 86
- Near Gloucester City, NJ 86
- Near Graham County Vol…, NC 86
- Near Town of Clayton, NC 86
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO
- County
- El Paso County
- FDID
- 04166
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #24 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,276 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County roster fringe
Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is 5.6% of El Paso County roster mass
The county lists 42 departments totaling 1,531 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 71% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Gloucester City Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 86 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.