Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderSouth Tucson Fire Department
Tucson, AZ · Pima County. South Tucson Fire Department is a fire department and 41 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.
- 41
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
South Tucson Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Arizona average.
- Top 26%
- national personnel size
- +64%
- vs. Arizona average
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.
South Tucson Fire Department is a fire department serving Tucson, AZ (Pima County) and 41 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,789 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,789 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #48 of 191
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Pima County
South Tucson Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
41 Top 26% higher than 74% 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 AZ-SOUTH-TUCSON-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-AZ · South Tucson Fire Department, AZ 41 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 41
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,789
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Blue Ridge Paper…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Blue Ridge Paper Products Emergency Response, NC (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every AZ department.
- South Tucson (this dept) 41
- High Columbus Volunteer, TX 41
- Near Blue Ridge Paper…, NC 41
- Near Buxton, ME 41
- Near Byron Fire Depart…, IL 41
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Tucson, AZ
- County
- Pima County
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How South Tucson Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #48 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,789 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 91
- AZ departments
- 322
County roster fringe
South Tucson Fire Department is 2.7% of Pima County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 1,534 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Blue Ridge Paper Products Emergency Response, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 41 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.