Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSilver City Fire Department
Silver City, NM · Grant County. Silver City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 26 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.
- 26
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Silver City Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well above the New Mexico average.
- 43rd pct.
- national personnel size
- +86%
- vs. New Mexico 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.
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.
Silver City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Silver City, NM (Grant County), with 2 stations and 26 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #12,875 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #12,875 of 22,440
- NM personnel rank #65 of 197
- 7.69 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Grant County
Silver City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
26 Top 57% higher than 43% 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 17055 · Silver City Fire Department, NM 26 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 26
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #12,875
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Northshore Fire P…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Northshore Fire Protection District, CA (+ 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 NM department.
- Silver City (this dept) 26
- High Butler City, IN 26
- Near Northshore Fire P…, CA 26
- Near Waterloo Grant To…, IN 26
- Near Lake Andes Volunt…, SD 26
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Silver City, NM
- County
- Grant County
- FDID
- 17055
Staffing vs the New Mexico average
How Silver City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #65 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #12,875 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 32
- NM departments
- 446
County roster fringe
Silver City Fire Department is 9.4% of Grant County roster mass
The county lists 18 departments totaling 276 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 26 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Northshore Fire Protection District, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 26 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NM department.