Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderEdwards Air Force Base Fire Protection Division
Edwards, CA · Kern County. Edwards Air Force Base Fire Protection Division is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 143 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.
- 143
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Edwards Air Force Base Fire Protection Division pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +286%
- vs. California average
- 5
- 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.
Edwards Air Force Base Fire Protection Division is a Career (Paid) department serving Edwards, CA (Kern County), with 5 stations and 143 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #459 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #459 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #41 of 721
- 3.50 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Kern County
Edwards Air Force Base Fire Protection Division vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
143 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 15830 · Edwards Air Force Base Fire Protection Division, CA 143 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 143
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #459
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hawthorne Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hawthorne Volunteer Fire Department Rescue 5, NJ (+ 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.
- Edwards Air Force… (this dept) 143
- High Spokane Valley, WA 143
- Near Hawthorne Volunte…, NJ 143
- Near Lawrence, MA 143
- Near Binghamton, NY 143
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Edwards, CA
- County
- Kern County
- FDID
- 15830
Staffing vs the California average
How Edwards Air Force Base Fire Protection Division's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #41 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #459 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster geometry
Kern County HIFLD mix around Edwards Air Force Base Fire Protection Division
Kern County: 14 departments, 1,050 personnel (2 volunteer / 7 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 79% of departments. County / state rollup.
3.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 143 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hawthorne Volunteer Fire Department Rescue 5, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 143 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.