Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

South Pierce Fire and Rescue

Eatonville, WA · Pierce County. South Pierce Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 35 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.

35
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

South Pierce Fire and Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Washington average.

Top 36%
national personnel size
-5%
vs. Washington 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
10/100
South Pierce 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 F
11.7 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
35 personnel · 3 stations

South Pierce Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Eatonville, WA (Pierce County), with 3 stations and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,118 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,118 of 22,440
  • WA personnel rank #71 of 120
  • 8.57 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 13 other listed departments in Pierce County

South Pierce Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

35 Top 36% higher than 64% 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 27D15 · South Pierce Fire and Rescue, WA 35 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 35
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,118
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ashland Fire and…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Ashland Fire and Rescue, OR (+ 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 WA department.

Department Profile

Type
MAINLY PAID PROVIDERS
Location
Eatonville, WA
FDID
27D15

Staffing vs the Washington average

How South Pierce Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Washington. In-state it ranks #71 of 120 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,118 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 5% below the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
68
WA departments
483

County roster fringe

South Pierce Fire and Rescue is 2.3% of Pierce County roster mass

The county lists 34 departments totaling 1,547 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

8.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 35 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Ashland Fire and Rescue, OR (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 35 personnel

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