Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderUnion Colony Fire and Rescue Authority
Greeley, CO · Weld County. Union Colony Fire and Rescue Authority is a Career (Paid) department, 7 stations and 104 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.
- 104
- Total personnel
- 7
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Union Colony Fire and Rescue Authority pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Colorado average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +300%
- vs. Colorado average
- 7
- 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.
Union Colony Fire and Rescue Authority is a Career (Paid) department serving Greeley, CO (Weld County), with 7 stations and 104 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #875 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #875 of 22,440
- CO personnel rank #19 of 364
- 6.73 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 29 other listed departments in Weld County
Union Colony Fire and Rescue Authority vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
104 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 12333 · Union Colony Fire and Rescue Authority, CO 104 personnel · 7 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 104
- STA-MULTI 7 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #875
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Homer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Homer Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- Union Colony Fire… (this dept) 104
- High Gordon County, GA 104
- Near Homer, NY 104
- Near Berwyn Fire Compa…, PA 104
- Near Abingdon Voluntee…, VA 104
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Greeley, CO
- County
- Weld County
- FDID
- 12333
Staffing vs the Colorado average
How Union Colony Fire and Rescue Authority's personnel count compares to the typical department in Colorado. In-state it ranks #19 of 364 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #875 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 7
- State fire deaths/yr
- 55
- CO departments
- 575
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Weld County
County mix is mostly volunteer (11 volunteer / 2 career / 8 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.73 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (7 stations / 104 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Homer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 104 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CO department.