Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Anderson 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
4/100
Anderson Valley Volunteer 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 F
6.3 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness F
0.1 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
44 personnel · 7 stations

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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Boonville, CA
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.

▲ 19% above the state average
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).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 44 personnel

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