Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association

Canon City, CO · Fremont County. Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 40 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.

40
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Colorado average.

Top 28%
national personnel size
+54%
vs. Colorado 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
38/100
Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association

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
20 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
40 personnel · 2 stations

Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association is a Volunteer department serving Canon City, CO (Fremont County), with 2 stations and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,359 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,359 of 22,440
  • CO personnel rank #98 of 364
  • 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Fremont County

Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association vs. the national personnel distribution

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

40 Top 28% higher than 72% 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 04365 · Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association, CO 40 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 40
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,359
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Decatur
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Decatur Fire Department, GA (+ 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 CO department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Canon City, CO
FDID
04365

Staffing vs the Colorado average

How Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #98 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,359 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 54% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
55
CO departments
575

County roster geometry

Fremont County HIFLD mix around Tallahassee Rural Fire Protection Association

Fremont County: 14 departments, 217 personnel (9 volunteer / 1 career / 1 combination); EMS flag on 57% of departments. County / state rollup.

5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 40 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Decatur Fire Department, GA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel

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