Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Anaheim Fire Department

Anaheim, CA · Orange County. Anaheim Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 10 stations and 276 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.

276
Total personnel
10
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Anaheim Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.

Top 1%
national personnel size
+646%
vs. California average
10
stations
$12,987,007
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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
73/100
Anaheim 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
27.6 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 A
$47,054 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
276 personnel · 10 stations

Anaheim Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Anaheim, CA (Orange County), with 10 stations and 276 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #135 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $12,987,007.

  • National personnel rank #135 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #18 of 721
  • 3.62 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Orange County

Anaheim Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

276 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 30005 · Anaheim Fire Department, CA 276 personnel · 10 stations

PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-LARGE 276
  • STA-MULTI 10 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #135
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Haven
  • FEMA-HEAVY $13.0M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: West Haven Fire Department, CT (+ 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 CA department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Anaheim, CA
FDID
30005

FEMA Grant History

$13.0M
Cumulative funding (FY2009–2024)
8
Awards
Year Award Amount
2024 EMW-2024-FF-00998 $3,571,783.73
2020 EMW-2020-FG-02352 $302,470
2019 EMW-2019-FF-01257 $5,691,532.03
2017 EMW-2017-FO-04592 $1,466,896
2016 EMW2015FO02556 $988,843
2015 EMW2014FP00454 $171,495
2014 EMW2013FO06885 $313,987
2009 EMW-2009-FV-0078 $480,000

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the California average

How Anaheim Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #18 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #135 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 646% above the state average
Stations
10
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Anaheim Fire Department is 9.3% of Orange County roster mass

The county lists 27 departments totaling 2,970 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 81% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (10 stations / 276 roster).

Photo-finish peer: West Haven Fire Department, CT (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 276 personnel

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