Department profile
VolunteerBoulder Creek Fire Protection District
Boulder Creek, CA · Santa Cruz County. Boulder Creek Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 33 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Boulder Creek 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
- 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.
Boulder Creek Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Boulder Creek, CA (Santa Cruz County), with 2 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,592 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,592 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #330 of 721
- 6.06 stations per 100 personnel
- 14 other listed departments in Santa Cruz County
Boulder Creek 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 44020 · Boulder Creek Fire Protection District, CA 33 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #8,592
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Vandenbroek-Kauka…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Vandenbroek-Kaukauna Fire and Rescue, WI (+ 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.
- Boulder Creek Fir… (this dept) 33
- High Fairview Rural Vo…, AR 33
- Near Vandenbroek-Kauka…, WI 33
- Near Flora, MS 33
- Near Fort Walton Beach, FL 33
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Boulder Creek, CA
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- FDID
- 44020
Staffing vs the California average
How Boulder Creek Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #330 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,592 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
Boulder Creek Fire Protection District is 5.6% of Santa Cruz County roster mass
The county lists 22 departments totaling 587 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 23% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.06 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Vandenbroek-Kaukauna Fire and Rescue, WI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.