Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderProvo Fire and Rescue
Provo, UT · Utah County. Provo Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 85 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.
- 85
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Provo Fire and Rescue pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Utah average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +325%
- vs. Utah average
- 5
- stations
- $4,116,874
- 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.
Provo Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Provo, UT (Utah County), with 5 stations and 85 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,319 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,116,874.
- National personnel rank #1,319 of 22,440
- UT personnel rank #7 of 162
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in Utah County
Provo Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
85 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 49013 · Provo Fire and Rescue, UT 85 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 85
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,319
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Amagansett
- FEMA-MID $4.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Amagansett Fire Department, 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 UT department.
- Provo Fire and Re… (this dept) 85
- High Hazle Township Fi…, PA 85
- Near Amagansett, NY 85
- Near Saint Tammany Fir…, LA 85
- Near Groton, NY 85
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Provo, UT
- County
- Utah County
- FDID
- 49013
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FF-00179 | $3,335,990.13 |
| 2011 | EMW2010FH01060 | $-60,284 |
| 2010 | EMW-2010-FH-0106 | $841,168 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Utah average
How Provo Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Utah. In-state it ranks #7 of 162 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,319 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 26
- UT departments
- 271
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Utah County
County mix is mostly volunteer (17 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 85 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Amagansett Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 85 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every UT department.