Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderThornton Fire Department
Thornton, CO · Adams County. Thornton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 92 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.
- 92
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Thornton Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Colorado average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +254%
- vs. Colorado average
- 5
- stations
- $2,123,973
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Thornton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Thornton, CO (Adams County), with 5 stations and 92 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,122 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,123,973.
- National personnel rank #1,122 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #21 of 364
- 5.43 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Adams County
Thornton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
92 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 00175 · Thornton Fire Department, CO 92 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 92
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,122
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Canby Fire Distri…
- FEMA-MID $2.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Canby Fire District, 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 CO department.
- Thornton (this dept) 92
- High Florence, AL 92
- Near Canby Fire Distri…, OR 92
- Near Hope Valley - Wyo…, RI 92
- Near West Hartford, CT 92
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Thornton, CO
- County
- Adams County
- FDID
- 00175
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-04665 | $251,574.54 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FP-00863 | $1,186,635 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FV02141 | $523,810 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-06003 | $180,614 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FH00453 | $-18,661 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Thornton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #21 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,122 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a combination-heavy Adams County
County mix is mostly combination (3 volunteer / 3 career / 6 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.43 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 92 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Canby Fire District, OR (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 92 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.