Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Borrego Springs Fire Protection District

Borrego Springs, CA · San Diego County. Borrego Springs Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 33 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.

33
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Borrego Springs Fire Protection District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the California average.

Top 38%
national personnel size
-11%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
75/100
Borrego Springs Fire Protection District

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.

Staffing capacity B
33 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
33 personnel · 1 station

Borrego Springs Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Borrego Springs, CA (San Diego County), with 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,591 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,591 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #329 of 721
  • 3.03 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 63 other listed departments in San Diego County

Borrego Springs Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

33 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 37015 · Borrego Springs Fire Protection District, CA 33 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 33
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,591
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mishicot
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Mishicot Fire Department, WI (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY PAID
Location
Borrego Springs, CA
FDID
37015

Staffing vs the California average

How Borrego Springs Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #329 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,591 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 11% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Borrego Springs Fire Protection District is 0.9% of San Diego County roster mass

The county lists 83 departments totaling 3,721 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.03 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 33 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Mishicot Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.