Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderEl Dorado County Fire Protection District
Camino, CA · El Dorado County. El Dorado County Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 15 stations and 133 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.
- 133
- Total personnel
- 15
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
El Dorado County Fire Protection District pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +259%
- vs. California average
- 15
- 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 Dorado County Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Camino, CA (El Dorado County), with 15 stations and 133 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #536 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #536 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #46 of 721
- 11.28 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in El Dorado County
El Dorado County Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
133 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 09012 · El Dorado County Fire Protection District, CA 133 personnel · 15 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 133
- STA-MULTI 15 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #536
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lee Chambers
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lee Chambers Fire Department, AL (+ 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 Dorado County… (this dept) 133
- High Terryville, NY 133
- Near Lee Chambers, AL 133
- Near Norman, OK 133
- Near Cowlitz 2 Fire an…, WA 133
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY PAID
- Location
- Camino, CA
- County
- El Dorado County
- FDID
- 09012
Staffing vs the California average
How El Dorado County Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #46 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #536 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 15
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy El Dorado County
County mix is mostly volunteer (10 volunteer / 6 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
11.28 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (15 stations / 133 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lee Chambers Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 133 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.