Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Riverside Fire Department
Riverside, CA · Riverside County. City of Riverside Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 13 stations and 216 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.
- 216
- Total personnel
- 13
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Riverside Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +484%
- vs. California average
- 13
- stations
- $5,195,033
- 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 Riverside Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Riverside, CA (Riverside County), with 13 stations and 216 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #194 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $5,195,033.
- National personnel rank #194 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #25 of 721
- 6.02 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 31 other listed departments in Riverside County
City of Riverside Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
216 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 33075 · City of Riverside Fire Department, CA 216 personnel · 13 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 216
- STA-MULTI 13 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #194
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Smith County Fire…
- FEMA-HEAVY $5.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Smith County Fire Department Central District, TN (+ 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.
- High Springfield, MO 217
- City of Riverside (this dept) 216
- Near Smith County Fire…, TN 216
- Low Peekskill, NY 214
- Near Bellevue, WA 214
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Riverside, CA
- County
- Riverside County
- FDID
- 33075
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-05350 | $181,818.18 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-05744 | $587,839.65 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-03784 | $547,107 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FO01027 | $969,606 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FR00331 | $312,819 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FO02138 | $875,435 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FO05475 | $168,140 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FO03118 | $521,779 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FO02807 | $457,489 |
| 2010 | EMW-2010-FO-0772 | $573,000 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How City of Riverside Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #25 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #194 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 13
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
City of Riverside Fire Department is 6.8% of Riverside County roster mass
The county lists 39 departments totaling 3,195 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.02 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (13 stations / 216 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Smith County Fire Department Central District, TN (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 216 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.