Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

City of West Covina Fire Department

West Covina, CA · Los Angeles County. City of West Covina Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 81 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.

81
Total personnel
5
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

City of West Covina Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.

Top 6%
national personnel size
+119%
vs. California average
5
stations
$7,195,431
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
26/100
City of West Covina Fire Department

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 D
16.2 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
81 personnel · 5 stations

City of West Covina Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving West Covina, CA (Los Angeles County), with 5 stations and 81 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,418 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $7,195,431.

  • National personnel rank #1,418 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #97 of 721
  • 6.17 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 45 other listed departments in Los Angeles County

City of West Covina Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

81 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 19210 · City of West Covina Fire Department, CA 81 personnel · 5 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 81
  • STA-FEW 5 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,418
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lakewood
  • FEMA-HEAVY $7.2M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lakewood Fire Department, OH (+ 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
PAID
Location
West Covina, CA
FDID
19210

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2010–2023)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2023 EMW-2023-FF-01127 $0
2014 EMW2013FH00730 $4,154,990
2011 EMW2010FH00620 $-10,872
2010 EMW-2010-FH-0062 $3,051,313

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the California average

How City of West Covina Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #97 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,418 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 119% above the state average
Stations
5
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

City of West Covina Fire Department is 1.1% 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.

6.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 81 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lakewood Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 81 personnel

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