Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAtascadero City Fire Department
Atascadero, CA · San Luis Obispo County. Atascadero City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 48 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.
- 48
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Atascadero City Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- +30%
- vs. California average
- 2
- 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.
Atascadero City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Atascadero, CA (San Luis Obispo County), with 2 stations and 48 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,230 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,230 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #215 of 721
- 4.17 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 18 other listed departments in San Luis Obispo County
Atascadero City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
48 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 40010 · Atascadero City Fire Department, CA 48 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 48
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,230
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Upper Saucon Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Upper Saucon Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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.
- Atascadero City (this dept) 48
- High Reinholds Fire Co…, PA 48
- Near Upper Saucon Volu…, PA 48
- Near Crooked Lake Volu…, WI 48
- Near Bladensburg Volun…, OH 48
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY PAID
- Location
- Atascadero, CA
- County
- San Luis Obispo County
- FDID
- 40010
Staffing vs the California average
How Atascadero City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #215 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,230 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster geometry
San Luis Obispo County HIFLD mix around Atascadero City Fire Department
San Luis Obispo County: 22 departments, 450 personnel (7 volunteer / 12 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 77% of departments. County / state rollup.
4.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 48 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Upper Saucon Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 48 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.