Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHuntington Beach Fire Department
Huntington Beach, CA · Orange County. Huntington Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 161 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.
- 161
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Huntington Beach Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +335%
- vs. California average
- 8
- stations
- $522,339
- 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.
Huntington Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Huntington Beach, CA (Orange County), with 8 stations and 161 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #353 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $522,339.
- National personnel rank #353 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #34 of 721
- 4.97 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Orange County
Huntington Beach Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
161 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 30040 · Huntington Beach Fire Department, CA 161 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 161
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #353
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jones County
- FEMA-MID $522K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Jones County Fire Department, GA (+ 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.
- High Framingham, MA 162
- Huntington Beach (this dept) 161
- Near Jones County, GA 161
- Near Mercer Central, KY 161
- Low East Rockaway Fir…, NY 160
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Huntington Beach, CA
- County
- Orange County
- FDID
- 30040
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-00948 | $360,593.63 |
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-00174 | $161,745.16 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Huntington Beach Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #34 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #353 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Huntington Beach Fire Department is 5.4% 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.
4.97 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 161 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Jones County Fire Department, GA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 161 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.