Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Downey Fire Department
Downey, CA · Los Angeles County. City of Downey Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 104 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.
- 104
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Downey Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +181%
- vs. California average
- 4
- stations
- $2,803,983
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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 Downey Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Downey, CA (Los Angeles County), with 4 stations and 104 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #862 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,803,983.
- National personnel rank #862 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #65 of 721
- 3.85 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 45 other listed departments in Los Angeles County
City of Downey Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
104 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 19055 · City of Downey Fire Department, CA 104 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 104
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #862
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Berwyn Fire Compa…
- FEMA-MID $2.8M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Berwyn Fire Company, PA (+ 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 Downey (this dept) 104
- High Abingdon Voluntee…, VA 104
- Near Berwyn Fire Compa…, PA 104
- Near Union Colony Fire…, CO 104
- Near Homer, NY 104
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Downey, CA
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Ambulances
- 2
- FDID
- 19055
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-02197 | $326,298 |
| 2012 | EMW-2012-FH-0044 | $2,022,332 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0693 | $196,491 |
| 2005 | EMW-2005-FG-0544 | $258,862 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How City of Downey Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #65 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #862 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
City of Downey Fire Department is 1.4% 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.
3.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 104 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Berwyn Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 104 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.