Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBarstow Fire Protection District
Barstow, CA · San Bernardino County. Barstow Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 50 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.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Barstow Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 17%
- national personnel size
- +35%
- vs. California average
- 3
- stations
- $1,691,412
- 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.
Barstow Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Barstow, CA (San Bernardino County), with 3 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,791 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,691,412.
- National personnel rank #3,791 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #197 of 721
- 6.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 44 other listed departments in San Bernardino County
Barstow Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 36035 · Barstow Fire Protection District, CA 50 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,791
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Farmersville Fire…
- FEMA-MID $1.7M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Farmersville Fire Company, 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.
- Barstow Fire Prot… (this dept) 50
- High Bowmansville Fire…, PA 50
- Near Farmersville Fire…, PA 50
- Near Caernarvon Fire C…, PA 50
- Near Otisville Volunte…, NY 50
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Barstow, CA
- County
- San Bernardino County
- FDID
- 36035
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | EMW2015FH00806 | $311,032 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FH00640 | $1,380,380 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Barstow Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #197 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,791 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
Barstow Fire Protection District is 2.7% of San Bernardino County roster mass
The county lists 60 departments totaling 1,856 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Farmersville Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.