Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGilroy Fire Department - Chestnut Station
Gilroy, CA · Santa Clara County. Gilroy Fire Department - Chestnut Station is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 44 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.
- 44
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Gilroy Fire Department - Chestnut Station pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 23%
- national personnel size
- +19%
- 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.
Gilroy Fire Department - Chestnut Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Gilroy, CA (Santa Clara County), with 2 stations and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,130 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,130 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #242 of 721
- 4.55 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 21 other listed departments in Santa Clara County
Gilroy Fire Department - Chestnut Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 43010 · Gilroy Fire Department - Chestnut Station, CA 44 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 44
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,130
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Webster Tip…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: North Webster Tippecanoe Township Fire Department, IN (+ 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.
- Gilroy Fire Depar… (this dept) 44
- High Shiocton-Bovina, WI 44
- Near North Webster Tip…, IN 44
- Near Stewart, MN 44
- Near Fredonia Volunteer, PA 44
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Gilroy, CA
- County
- Santa Clara County
- FDID
- 43010
Staffing vs the California average
How Gilroy Fire Department - Chestnut Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #242 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,130 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
Gilroy Fire Department - Chestnut Station is 2.0% of Santa Clara County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 2,203 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.55 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 44 roster).
Photo-finish peer: North Webster Tippecanoe Township Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 44 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.