Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue

San Mateo, NM · Cibola County. San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 18 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.

18
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the New Mexico average.

16th pct.
national personnel size
+29%
vs. New Mexico average
1
station

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue

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 D
18 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
18 personnel · 1 station

San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving San Mateo, NM (Cibola County), with 1 station and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,829 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,829 of 22,440
  • NM personnel rank #131 of 197
  • 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Cibola County

San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

18 Top 84% higher than 16% 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 31049 · San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NM 18 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 18
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,829
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Grambling Volunte…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Grambling Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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 NM department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
San Mateo, NM
FDID
31049

Staffing vs the New Mexico average

How San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #131 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,829 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 29% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
32
NM departments
446

County roster geometry

Cibola County HIFLD mix around San Mateo Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Cibola County: 15 departments, 141 personnel (6 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 80% of departments. County / state rollup.

5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 18 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Grambling Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 18 personnel

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