Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBig Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade
Big Sur, CA · Monterey County. Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 51 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.
- 51
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 16%
- national personnel size
- +38%
- vs. California average
- 3
- 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 Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade is a Volunteer department serving Big Sur, CA (Monterey County), with 3 stations and 51 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,683 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,683 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #192 of 721
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 29 other listed departments in Monterey County
Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
51 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 27900 · Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade, CA 51 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 51
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,683
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Borough of Chambe…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Borough of Chambersburg Fire Department, PA (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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 Sur Volunteer… (this dept) 51
- High Spencer Fire and…, MA 51
- Near Borough of Chambe…, PA 51
- Near Mercersburg-Montg…, PA 51
- Near Watertown, WI 51
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Big Sur, CA
- County
- Monterey County
- FDID
- 27900
Staffing vs the California average
How Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #192 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,683 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
Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade is 5.7% of Monterey County roster mass
The county lists 35 departments totaling 901 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 51 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Borough of Chambersburg Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 51 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.