Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Rye Fire Protection District

Colorado City, CO · Pueblo County. Rye Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 22 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.

22
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Rye Fire Protection District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Colorado average.

29th pct.
national personnel size
-15%
vs. Colorado average
2
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
9/100
Rye Fire Protection District

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
11 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
22 personnel · 2 stations

Rye Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Colorado City, CO (Pueblo County), with 2 stations and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,950 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #15,950 of 22,440
  • CO personnel rank #224 of 364
  • 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in Pueblo County

Rye Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

22 Top 71% higher than 29% 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 10160 · Rye Fire Protection District, CO 22 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 22
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #15,950
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Watauga Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Watauga Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+ 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
Colorado City, CO
FDID
10160

Staffing vs the Colorado average

How Rye Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #224 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,950 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 15% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
55
CO departments
575

County roster fringe

Rye Fire Protection District is 6.2% of Pueblo County roster mass

The county lists 17 departments totaling 354 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 76% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 22 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Watauga Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 22 personnel

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