Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Folsom City Fire Department

Folsom, CA · Sacramento County. Folsom City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 73 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.

73
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Folsom City Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the California average.

Top 8%
national personnel size
+97%
vs. California average
4
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
33/100
Folsom City 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
18.3 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
73 personnel · 4 stations

Folsom City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Folsom, CA (Sacramento County), with 4 stations and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,756 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,756 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #118 of 721
  • 5.48 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 17 other listed departments in Sacramento County

Folsom City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 34035 · Folsom City Fire Department, CA 73 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 73
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,756
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Deerfield
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Deerfield Fire Department, NY (+ 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
Folsom, CA
FDID
34035

Staffing vs the California average

How Folsom City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #118 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,756 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 97% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Folsom City Fire Department is 4.6% of Sacramento County roster mass

The county lists 22 departments totaling 1,585 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.48 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 73 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Deerfield Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide career peers near 73 personnel

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