Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAuburn City Fire Department
Auburn, CA · Placer County. Auburn City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 32 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.
- 32
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Auburn City Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the California average.
- Top 40%
- national personnel size
- -14%
- vs. California average
- 3
- stations
- $1,216,308
- 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.
Auburn City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Auburn, CA (Placer County), with 3 stations and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,944 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,216,308.
- National personnel rank #8,944 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #341 of 721
- 9.38 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 21 other listed departments in Placer County
Auburn City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
32 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 31010 · Auburn City Fire Department, CA 32 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 32
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,944
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ramsey Volunteer
- FEMA-MID $1.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Ramsey Volunteer Fire Department, IN (+ 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.
- Auburn City (this dept) 32
- High Hebron Fire Prote…, ND 32
- Near Ramsey Volunteer, IN 32
- Near Terrace Park, OH 32
- Near New Salem Fire Pr…, ND 32
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY PAID
- Location
- Auburn, CA
- County
- Placer County
- FDID
- 31010
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | EMW2014FH00430 | $534,408 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FH-0026 | $681,900 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Auburn City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #341 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,944 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Auburn City Fire Department is 4.6% of Placer County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 698 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
9.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 32 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Ramsey Volunteer Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 32 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.