Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderPuerco Valley Fire District
Chambers, AZ · Apache County. Puerco Valley Fire District is a fire department and 20 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.
- 20
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Puerco Valley Fire District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Arizona average.
- 22nd pct.
- national personnel size
- -20%
- vs. Arizona 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.
Puerco Valley Fire District is a fire department serving Chambers, AZ (Apache County) and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,540 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #17,540 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #137 of 191
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 14 other listed departments in Apache County
Puerco Valley Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
20 Top 78% higher than 22% 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 AZ-PUERCO-VALLEY-FIRE-DISTRICT-AZ-2 · Puerco Valley Fire District, AZ 20 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 20
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #17,540
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 2604 Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 2604 Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every AZ department.
- Puerco Valley Fir… (this dept) 20
- High Andover, ME 20
- Near 2604 Volunteer, TX 20
- Near Abilene, KS 20
- Near Alliant Techsyste…, UT 20
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Chambers, AZ
- County
- Apache County
- Ambulances
- 3
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How Puerco Valley Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #137 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,540 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 91
- AZ departments
- 322
County roster fringe
Puerco Valley Fire District is 9.3% of Apache County roster mass
The county lists 17 departments totaling 215 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: 2604 Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 20 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.