Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderAnderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department
Boonville, CA · Mendocino County. Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 7 stations and 44 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.
- 44
- Total personnel
- 7
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +19%
- vs. California average
- 7
- stations
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.
Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Boonville, CA (Mendocino County), with 7 stations and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,085 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,085 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #240 of 721
- 15.91 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 25 other listed departments in Mendocino County
Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 23010 · Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department, CA 44 personnel · 7 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-MULTI · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 44
- STA-MULTI 7 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,085
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Waveland Fire Dep…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Waveland Fire Department - Gulfside Station, MS (+ 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 CA department.
- Anderson Valley V… (this dept) 44
- High Mannington, WV 44
- Near Waveland Fire Dep…, MS 44
- Near Cumberland Furnac…, TN 44
- Near Washington Court…, OH 44
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Boonville, CA
- County
- Mendocino County
- Ambulances
- 1
- FDID
- 23010
Staffing vs the California average
How Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #240 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,085 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 7
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department is 7.5% of Mendocino County roster mass
The county lists 32 departments totaling 585 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 91% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
15.91 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (7 stations / 44 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Waveland Fire Department - Gulfside Station, MS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 44 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.