Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Pueblo Fire Department

Pueblo, CO · Pueblo County. Pueblo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 10 stations and 140 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.

140
Total personnel
10
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pueblo Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Colorado average.

Top 2%
national personnel size
+438%
vs. Colorado average
10
stations

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
18/100
Pueblo 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 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
140 personnel · 10 stations

Pueblo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Pueblo, CO (Pueblo County), with 10 stations and 140 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #482 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #482 of 22,440
  • CO personnel rank #9 of 364
  • 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in Pueblo County

Pueblo Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

140 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 10145 · Pueblo Fire Department, CO 140 personnel · 10 stations

PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 140
  • STA-MULTI 10 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #482
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sugarloaf Fire Co…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Sugarloaf Fire Company Incorporated, PA (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Pueblo, CO
FDID
10145

Staffing vs the Colorado average

How Pueblo Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #9 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #482 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 438% above the state average
Stations
10
State fire deaths/yr
55
CO departments
575

County roster weight

Pueblo Fire Department carries 39.5% of Pueblo County HIFLD personnel

Among 17 listed departments (354 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 24% of the county count. County / state rollup.

7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (10 stations / 140 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Sugarloaf Fire Company Incorporated, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 140 personnel

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