Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAnaheim 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.
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.
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.
- Anaheim (this dept) 276
- High Lawrence Douglas…, KS 276
- Near West Haven, CT 276
- Low Hollywood Fire Re…, FL 275
- Near Plantation, FL 275
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Anaheim, CA
- County
- Orange County
- FDID
- 30005
FEMA Grant History
| 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 276 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.