Fire Service Information - Fire Service Department Types - Fire Service Personnel
National Fire Incident Reporting System. Reporting by Responserack Fire Department NFIRS RMS.
Personnel (fire department membership) numbers vary by region, by state and even by county. Recruiting is critical to fire department success, see National Volunteer Fire Council's Make Me a Firefighter and National Volunteer Fire Council's Recruiting Resources. Check out how your department’s numbers compare to those around you, to see how your recruitment and retention investments are fairing.
This information is based solely upon fire departments that have registered with the National Fire Service Registry. If you have not registered your fire department, please do so, it is free and contributes to a complete picture of the fire services. Check out some Quick Facts from the registry.
NOTE: In the USFA National Fire Service Registry data for Alaska there are 2 departments NOT classified, and so NOT included in these statistics. Departments should register as Career, Mostly Career, Volunteer or Mostly Volunteer but we do not have it for these 2 departments .
Here are the average numbers of volunteer firefighters for each county within Alaska, as well as the maximum and minimum numbers for that county.
| County | # Volunteer Departments | Average Firefighters | Highest # | Lowest # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aleutians East | 5 | 15 | 26 | 10 |
| Aleutians West | 3 | 18 | 34 | 5 |
| Anchorage | 5 | 81 | 170 | 12 |
| Bethel | 11 | 15 | 51 | 4 |
| Bristol Bay | 1 | 20 | - | - |
| Denali | 6 | 13 | 20 | 6 |
| Dillingham | 4 | 14 | 20 | 8 |
| Fairbanks North Star | 6 | 39 | 59 | 14 |
| Haines | 1 | 9 | - | - |
| Hoonah Angoon | 3 | 18 | 23 | 15 |
| Juneau | 1 | 106 | - | - |
| Kenai Peninsula | 11 | 27 | 56 | 5 |
| Ketchikan Gateway | 6 | 16 | 27 | 6 |
| Kodiak Island | 7 | 20 | 50 | 5 |
| Kusilvak | 1 | 5 | - | - |
| Lake And Peninsula | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 |
| Matanuska Susitna | 10 | 38 | 164 | 12 |
| Nome | 6 | 34 | 84 | - |
| North Slope | 1 | 175 | - | - |
| Northwest Arctic | 4 | 49 | 131 | 16 |
| Petersburg | 2 | 34 | 35 | 32 |
| Prince Of Wales Hyder | 7 | 21 | 39 | 10 |
| Sitka | 2 | 30 | 39 | 20 |
| Skagway | 1 | 38 | - | - |
| Southeast Fairbanks | 5 | 11 | 20 | 5 |
| Unspecified County | 12 | 19 | 68 | 4 |
| Wrangell | 1 | 36 | - | - |
| Yakutat | 1 | 20 | - | - |
| Yukon Koyukuk | 12 | 15 | 42 | 6 |
Here are the average numbers of career firefighters for each county within Alaska, as well as the maximum and minimum numbers for that county.
| County | # Career Departments | Average Firefighters | Highest # | Lowest # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage | 6 | 125 | 326 | 24 |
| Denali | 1 | 25 | - | - |
| Fairbanks North Star | 4 | 47 | 73 | 25 |
| Kenai Peninsula | 2 | 46 | 72 | 19 |
| Ketchikan Gateway | 2 | 23 | 38 | 7 |
| Kodiak Island | 2 | 23 | 32 | 13 |
| Unspecified County | 1 | 18 | - | - |
Here are the department types by county for volunteer and career agencies in for Alaska.
Here are the fire department identifiers (FDIDs) for agencies within Alaska. NFIRS FDIDs are required for submitting NFIRS reports with mutual aid or automatic aid with those departments.
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