Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Wagon Mound Volunteer Fire Department

Wagon Mound, NM · Mora County. Wagon Mound Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 19 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.

19
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Wagon Mound Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the New Mexico average.

19th pct.
national personnel size
+36%
vs. New Mexico average
1
station

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
35/100
Wagon Mound Volunteer Fire Department

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
19 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
19 personnel · 1 station

Wagon Mound Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Wagon Mound, NM (Mora County), with 1 station and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,229 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,229 of 22,440
  • NM personnel rank #124 of 197
  • 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Mora County

Wagon Mound Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

19 Top 81% higher than 19% 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 33043 · Wagon Mound Volunteer Fire Department, NM 19 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 19
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,229
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Saint Lucas
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Saint Lucas Fire Department, IA (+ 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 NM department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Wagon Mound, NM
FDID
33043

Staffing vs the New Mexico average

How Wagon Mound Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Mexico. In-state it ranks #124 of 197 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,229 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 36% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
32
NM departments
446

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Mora County

County mix is mostly volunteer (5 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 19 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Saint Lucas Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 19 personnel

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