Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Fort Irwin Fire Department

Fort Irwin, CA · San Bernardino County. Fort Irwin Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 64 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.

64
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 10%
national personnel size
+73%
vs. California average
1
station

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
PlainFireData Composite Score
94/100
Fort Irwin 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 A
64 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
64 personnel · 1 station

Fort Irwin Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Fort Irwin, CA (San Bernardino County), with 1 station and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,304 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,304 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #135 of 721
  • 1.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 44 other listed departments in San Bernardino County

Fort Irwin Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 36750 · Fort Irwin Fire Department, CA 64 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 64
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,304
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brewerton
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Brewerton 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
Fort Irwin, CA
FDID
36750

Staffing vs the California average

How Fort Irwin Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #135 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,304 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 73% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Fort Irwin Fire Department is 3.4% of San Bernardino County roster mass

The county lists 60 departments totaling 1,856 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

1.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 64 roster).

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

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

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Nationwide career peers near 64 personnel

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