Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderGold Ridge Fire Protection District
Sebastopol, CA · Sonoma County. Gold Ridge Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 95 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.
- 95
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Gold Ridge Fire Protection District pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +157%
- vs. California average
- 3
- stations
- $2,860,011
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Gold Ridge Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Sebastopol, CA (Sonoma County), with 3 stations and 95 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,050 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,860,011.
- National personnel rank #1,050 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #75 of 721
- 3.16 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 43 other listed departments in Sonoma County
Gold Ridge Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
95 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 49062 · Gold Ridge Fire Protection District, CA 95 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 95
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,050
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bridgehampton Fir…
- FEMA-MID $2.9M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bridgehampton Fire Department / Bridgehampton Fire District, NY (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Gold Ridge Fire P… (this dept) 95
- High Apalachin, NY 95
- Near Bridgehampton Fir…, NY 95
- Near Greeley Volunteer, PA 95
- Near Pocono Township V…, PA 95
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Sebastopol, CA
- County
- Sonoma County
- FDID
- 49062
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FF-01535 | $1,481,464.26 |
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FP-00871 | $669,446.24 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FF-01641 | $709,100 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Gold Ridge Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #75 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,050 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Gold Ridge Fire Protection District is 7.8% of Sonoma County roster mass
The county lists 58 departments totaling 1,216 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 97% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.16 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 95 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bridgehampton Fire Department / Bridgehampton Fire District, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 95 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.