Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service

Silver Peak, NV · Esmeralda County. Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 9 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.

9
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Nevada average.

1st pct.
national personnel size
-67%
vs. Nevada 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
8/100
Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service

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
9 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
9 personnel · 1 station

Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service is a Volunteer department serving Silver Peak, NV (Esmeralda County), with 1 station and 9 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,156 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,156 of 22,440
  • NV personnel rank #59 of 62
  • 11.11 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 3 other listed departments in Esmeralda County

Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service vs. the national personnel distribution

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

9 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 06001 · Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service, NV 9 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 9
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #22,156
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Barney Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Barney Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 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 NV department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Silver Peak, NV
FDID
06001

Staffing vs the Nevada average

How Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in Nevada. In-state it ranks #59 of 62 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,156 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 67% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
40
NV departments
156

County roster weight

Silver Peak Fire Department / Silver Peak Ambulance Service carries 36.0% of Esmeralda County HIFLD personnel

Among 4 listed departments (25 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 100% of the county count. County / state rollup.

11.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 9 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Barney Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 9 personnel

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