Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Show Low Fire Department

Show Low, AZ · Navajo County. Show Low Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 44 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.

44
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Show Low Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Arizona average.

Top 23%
national personnel size
+76%
vs. Arizona average
3
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
20/100
Show Low 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 D
14.7 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
44 personnel · 3 stations

Show Low Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Show Low, AZ (Navajo County), with 3 stations and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,195 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,195 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #43 of 191
  • 6.82 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 18 other listed departments in Navajo County

Show Low Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 10121 · Show Low Fire Department, AZ 44 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 44
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #5,195
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Chaska
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Chaska Fire Department, MN (+ 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 AZ department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Show Low, AZ
FDID
10121

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Show Low Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #43 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,195 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 76% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Show Low Fire Department is 8.9% of Navajo County roster mass

The county lists 25 departments totaling 492 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 44 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Chaska Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 44 personnel

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