Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Burbank Fire Department
Burbank, CA · Los Angeles County. City of Burbank Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 150 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.
- 150
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Burbank Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +305%
- vs. California average
- 6
- 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.
City of Burbank Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Burbank, CA (Los Angeles County), with 6 stations and 150 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #410 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #410 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #37 of 721
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 45 other listed departments in Los Angeles County
City of Burbank Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
150 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 19030 · City of Burbank Fire Department, CA 150 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 150
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #410
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kennedy Space Cen…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Fire, FL (+ 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.
- City of Burbank (this dept) 150
- High Hoover, AL 150
- Near Kennedy Space Cen…, FL 150
- Near Tift Volunteer, GA 150
- Near Hamden, CT 150
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Burbank, CA
- County
- Los Angeles County
- FDID
- 19030
Staffing vs the California average
How City of Burbank Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #37 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #410 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
City of Burbank Fire Department is 2.0% of Los Angeles County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 7,350 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 150 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Fire, FL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 150 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.