Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderFountain Valley Fire Department
Fountain Valley, CA · Orange County. Fountain Valley Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 56 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.
- 56
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Fountain Valley Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the California average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +51%
- 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.
Fountain Valley Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Fountain Valley, CA (Orange County), with 2 stations and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,990 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,990 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #166 of 721
- 3.57 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Orange County
Fountain Valley Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
56 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 30025 · Fountain Valley Fire Department, CA 56 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 56
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,990
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Carlisle Fire Com…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Carlisle Fire Company Incorporated, DE (+ 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.
- Fountain Valley (this dept) 56
- High Greeneville, TN 56
- Near Carlisle Fire Com…, DE 56
- Near Sugar Creek Towns…, IN 56
- Near New Freeport Volu…, PA 56
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Fountain Valley, CA
- County
- Orange County
- FDID
- 30025
Staffing vs the California average
How Fountain Valley Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #166 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,990 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
Fountain Valley Fire Department is 1.9% of Orange County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 2,970 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 81% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 56 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Carlisle Fire Company Incorporated, DE (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 56 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.