Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSelah Fire Department
Selah, WA · Yakima County. Selah Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 70 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.
- 70
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Selah Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the Washington average.
- Top 9%
- national personnel size
- +89%
- vs. Washington average
- 4
- 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.
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.
Selah Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Selah, WA (Yakima County), with 4 stations and 70 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,959 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,959 of 22,440
- WA personnel rank #25 of 120
- 5.71 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 10 other listed departments in Yakima County
Selah Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
70 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 39D02 · Selah Fire Department, WA 70 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 70
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,959
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Addison Fire Prot…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Addison Fire Protection District, IL (+ 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 WA department.
- Selah (this dept) 70
- High Carrollton Volunt…, IL 70
- Near Addison Fire Prot…, IL 70
- Near Beeville Volunteer, TX 70
- Near Bristol Fire Depa…, ME 70
Department Profile
- Type
- MAINLY VOLUNTEER PROVIDERS
- Location
- Selah, WA
- County
- Yakima County
- FDID
- 39D02
Staffing vs the Washington average
How Selah Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Washington. In-state it ranks #25 of 120 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,959 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 68
- WA departments
- 483
County roster fringe
Selah Fire Department is 6.7% of Yakima County roster mass
The county lists 20 departments totaling 1,043 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 70 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Addison Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 70 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WA department.