Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Prescott Fire Department

Prescott, AZ · Yavapai County. Prescott Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 72 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.

72
Total personnel
5
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Prescott Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arizona average.

Top 8%
national personnel size
+188%
vs. Arizona average
5
stations
$1,941,486
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
45/100
Prescott 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
14.4 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment B
$26,965 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
72 personnel · 5 stations

Prescott Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Prescott, AZ (Yavapai County), with 5 stations and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,812 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,941,486.

  • National personnel rank #1,812 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #16 of 191
  • 6.94 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 29 other listed departments in Yavapai County

Prescott Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

72 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 14162 · Prescott Fire Department, AZ 72 personnel · 5 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 72
  • STA-FEW 5 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,812
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Akron Volunteer F…
  • FEMA-MID $1.9M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Akron Volunteer Fire Company, 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 AZ department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Prescott, AZ
FDID
14162

FEMA Grant History

$1.9M
Cumulative funding (FY2013–2019)
4
Awards
Year Award Amount
2019 EMW-2019-FG-03530 $163,190.67
2017 EMW2015FH00698 $1,203,195
2015 EMW2014FO06517 $407,700
2013 EMW2012FO05969 $167,400

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Prescott Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #16 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,812 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 188% above the state average
Stations
5
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Prescott Fire Department is 7.3% of Yavapai County roster mass

The county lists 36 departments totaling 983 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 86% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 72 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Akron Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 72 personnel

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