Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGarden Grove Fire Department
Garden Grove, CA · Orange County. Garden Grove Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 7 stations and 103 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.
- 103
- Total personnel
- 7
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Garden Grove Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +178%
- vs. California average
- 7
- 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.
Garden Grove Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Garden Grove, CA (Orange County), with 7 stations and 103 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #881 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #881 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #66 of 721
- 6.80 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Orange County
Garden Grove Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
103 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 30035 · Garden Grove Fire Department, CA 103 personnel · 7 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 103
- STA-MULTI 7 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #881
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Parma
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Parma Fire Department, OH (+ 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.
- Garden Grove (this dept) 103
- High Central Lyon Coun…, NV 103
- Near Parma, OH 103
- Near Williamsburg Coun…, SC 103
- Near Franklin Township, IN 103
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Garden Grove, CA
- County
- Orange County
- FDID
- 30035
Staffing vs the California average
How Garden Grove Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #66 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #881 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 7
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Garden Grove Fire Department is 3.5% 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.
6.80 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (7 stations / 103 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Parma Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 103 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.