Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderEl Cerrito Fire Department
El Cerrito, CA · Contra Costa County. El Cerrito Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 38 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.
- 38
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
El Cerrito Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the California average.
- Top 30%
- national personnel size
- +3%
- vs. California average
- 2
- 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.
El Cerrito Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving El Cerrito, CA (Contra Costa County), with 2 stations and 38 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,727 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,727 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #284 of 721
- 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 21 other listed departments in Contra Costa County
El Cerrito Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
38 Top 30% higher than 70% 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 07040 · El Cerrito Fire Department, CA 38 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 38
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sinclair Refinery…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sinclair Refinery Volunteer Fire Department, WY (+ 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.
- El Cerrito (this dept) 38
- High Farmville Rural F…, NC 38
- Near Sinclair Refinery…, WY 38
- Near South Orange, NJ 38
- Near Farmville, NC 38
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- El Cerrito, CA
- County
- Contra Costa County
- FDID
- 07040
Staffing vs the California average
How El Cerrito Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #284 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,727 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
El Cerrito Fire Department is 2.9% of Contra Costa County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 1,307 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 38 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sinclair Refinery Volunteer Fire Department, WY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 38 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.