Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBig Bear City Fire Department
Big Bear City, CA · San Bernardino County. Big Bear City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Big Bear City Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount in line with the California average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +14%
- 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.
Big Bear City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Big Bear City, CA (San Bernardino County), with 2 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,432 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,432 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #256 of 721
- 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 44 other listed departments in San Bernardino County
Big Bear City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 36040 · Big Bear City Fire Department, CA 42 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,432
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ South Blooming Gr…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: South Blooming Grove Fire District, NY (+ 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.
- Big Bear City (this dept) 42
- High Stratford Area, WI 42
- Near South Blooming Gr…, NY 42
- Near Pershing Township…, IN 42
- Near Lee Community Vol…, FL 42
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Big Bear City, CA
- County
- San Bernardino County
- Ambulances
- 3
- FDID
- 36040
Staffing vs the California average
How Big Bear City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #256 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,432 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 fringe
Big Bear City Fire Department is 2.3% 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.
4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: South Blooming Grove Fire District, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.