Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderVerde Valley Fire District
Cottonwood, AZ · Yavapai County. Verde Valley Fire District is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 68 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.
- 68
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Verde Valley Fire District pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Arizona average.
- Top 9%
- national personnel size
- +172%
- 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.
Verde Valley Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Cottonwood, AZ (Yavapai County), with 4 stations and 68 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,063 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,063 of 22,440
- AZ personnel rank #17 of 191
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 29 other listed departments in Yavapai County
Verde Valley Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
68 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 14291 · Verde Valley Fire District, AZ 68 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 68
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #2,063
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Moorefield Store…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Moorefield Store Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+ 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 AZ department.
- Verde Valley Fire… (this dept) 68
- High Brentwood Volunte…, MD 68
- Near Moorefield Store…, VA 68
- Near West Manatee Fire…, FL 68
- Near Zoneton Fire Prot…, KY 68
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cottonwood, AZ
- County
- Yavapai County
- FDID
- 14291
Staffing vs the Arizona average
How Verde Valley Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #17 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,063 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
Verde Valley Fire District is 6.9% of Yavapai County roster mass
The county lists 36 departments totaling 983 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 86% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 68 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Moorefield Store Volunteer Fire Department, VA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 68 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every AZ department.