Department profile

Volunteer

Wickenburg Rural Fire Department

Wickenburg, AZ · Maricopa County. Wickenburg Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

29
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Wickenburg Rural Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Arizona average.

Top 50%
national personnel size
+16%
vs. Arizona 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
64/100
Wickenburg Rural 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 B
29 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
29 personnel · 1 station

Wickenburg Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Wickenburg, AZ (Maricopa County), with 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,280 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,280 of 22,440
  • AZ personnel rank #92 of 191
  • 3.45 stations per 100 personnel
  • 39 other listed departments in Maricopa County

Wickenburg Rural Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

29 Top 50% higher than 50% 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 08321 · Wickenburg Rural Fire Department, AZ 29 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 29
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-MID #11,280
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Northville City
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Northville City Fire Department, MI (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Wickenburg, AZ
FDID
08321

Staffing vs the Arizona average

How Wickenburg Rural Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Arizona. In-state it ranks #92 of 191 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,280 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 16% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
91
AZ departments
322

County roster fringe

Wickenburg Rural Fire Department is 1.8% of Maricopa County roster mass

The county lists 52 departments totaling 1,586 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 29 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Northville City Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel

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