Department profile
Career (Paid)Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District
Big Bear Lake, CA · San Bernardino County. Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 30
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount below the California average.
- Top 44%
- national personnel size
- -19%
- vs. California average
- 1
- station
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 Lake Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Big Bear Lake, CA (San Bernardino County), with 1 station and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,893 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #9,893 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #362 of 721
- 3.33 stations per 100 personnel
- 44 other listed departments in San Bernardino County
Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
30 Top 44% higher than 56% 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 36045 · Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District, CA 30 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 30
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-MID #9,893
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pocatello
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pocatello Fire Department, 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 Lake Fir… (this dept) 30
- High Orofino, ID 30
- Near Pocatello, NY 30
- Near Middle Hope, NY 30
- Near Durlach-Mount Air…, PA 30
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Big Bear Lake, CA
- County
- San Bernardino County
- FDID
- 36045
Staffing vs the California average
How Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #362 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,893 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District is 1.6% 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.
3.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 30 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pocatello Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.