Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHemet Fire Department
Hemet, CA · Riverside County. Hemet Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 54 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.
- 54
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Hemet Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +46%
- vs. California average
- 4
- stations
- $7,930,733
- 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.
Hemet Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Hemet, CA (Riverside County), with 4 stations and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,344 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $7,930,733.
- National personnel rank #3,344 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #172 of 721
- 7.41 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 31 other listed departments in Riverside County
Hemet Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
54 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 33040 · Hemet Fire Department, CA 54 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 54
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,344
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cassville-Scotts…
- FEMA-HEAVY $7.9M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cassville-Scotts Run Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 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.
- Hemet (this dept) 54
- High Marrero-Harvey Vo…, LA 54
- Near Cassville-Scotts…, WV 54
- Near Silver Lake Fire…, NY 54
- Near Dunkirk, IN 54
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Hemet, CA
- County
- Riverside County
- FDID
- 33040
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-05572 | $209,839.17 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-01195 | $7,071,090 |
| 2011 | EMW2010FH01212 | $-1,610,642 |
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FH-0076 | $2,260,446 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Hemet Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #172 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,344 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Hemet Fire Department is 1.7% of Riverside County roster mass
The county lists 39 departments totaling 3,195 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.41 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 54 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cassville-Scotts Run Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 54 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.