Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPrescott 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.
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.
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.
- Prescott (this dept) 72
- High Merck and Company…, VA 72
- Near Akron Volunteer F…, NY 72
- Near Union Fire Company, NY 72
- Near Union Township, OH 72
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Prescott, AZ
- County
- Yavapai County
- FDID
- 14162
FEMA Grant History
| 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.