Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Zillah City Fire and Rescue

Zillah, WA · Yakima County. Zillah City Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 64 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.

64
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Zillah City Fire and Rescue pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the Washington average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+73%
vs. Washington 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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
94/100
Zillah City Fire and Rescue

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 A
64 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
64 personnel · 1 station

Zillah City Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Zillah, WA (Yakima County), with 1 station and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,348 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,348 of 22,440
  • WA personnel rank #32 of 120
  • 1.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 10 other listed departments in Yakima County

Zillah City Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 39M12 · Zillah City Fire and Rescue, WA 64 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 64
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,348
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Belfast Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Belfast Volunteer Fire Department, ME (+ 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 WA department.

Department Profile

Type
MAINLY VOLUNTEER PROVIDERS
Location
Zillah, WA
FDID
39M12

Staffing vs the Washington average

How Zillah City Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Washington. In-state it ranks #32 of 120 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,348 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 73% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
68
WA departments
483

County roster fringe

Zillah City Fire and Rescue is 6.1% of Yakima County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 1,043 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 64 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Belfast Volunteer Fire Department, ME (+0 personnel).

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

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Sunnyside Fire Department Ambulance
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 64 personnel

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