Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTohono O'odham Nation Fire Department - Sells
Sells, AZ · Pima County. Tohono O'odham Nation Fire Department - Sells is a Career (Paid) department, 4 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
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Tohono O'odham Nation Fire Department - Sells pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Arizona average.
- Top 36%
- national personnel size
- +40%
- vs. Arizona average
- 4
- 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.
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.
Tohono O'odham Nation Fire Department - Sells is a Career (Paid) department serving Sells, AZ (Pima County), with 4 stations and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,157 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,157 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #70 of 191
- 11.43 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Pima County
Tohono O'odham Nation Fire Department - Sells 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 11233 · Tohono O'odham Nation Fire Department - Sells, AZ 35 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 35
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,157
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Johnson-Saint Par…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Johnson-Saint Paris Joint Fire District, OH (+ 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 AZ department.
- Tohono O'odham Na… (this dept) 35
- High Loretto, PA 35
- Near Johnson-Saint Par…, OH 35
- Near Aberdeen-Springfi…, ID 35
- Near Belgrade Volunteer, MO 35
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Sells, AZ
- County
- Pima County
- FDID
- 11233
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How Tohono O'odham Nation Fire Department - Sells's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #70 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,157 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 91
- AZ departments
- 322
County roster fringe
Tohono O'odham Nation Fire Department - Sells is 2.3% 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.
11.43 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 35 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Johnson-Saint Paris Joint Fire District, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 35 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.