Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderKlamath River Volunteer Fire Company
Horse Creek, CA · Siskiyou County. Klamath River Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 16 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.
- 16
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Klamath River Volunteer Fire Company pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the California average.
- 12th pct.
- national personnel size
- -57%
- 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.
Klamath River Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Horse Creek, CA (Siskiyou County), with 2 stations and 16 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,653 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #19,653 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #606 of 721
- 12.50 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 34 other listed departments in Siskiyou County
Klamath River Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
16 Top 88% higher than 12% 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 47043 · Klamath River Volunteer Fire Company, CA 16 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 16
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #19,653
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Goldsby Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Goldsby Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+ 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.
- Klamath River Vol… (this dept) 16
- High Granada, MN 16
- Near Goldsby Volunteer, OK 16
- Near Cosmos Fire Depar…, MN 16
- Near Armorel Volunteer, AR 16
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Horse Creek, CA
- County
- Siskiyou County
- FDID
- 47043
Staffing vs the California average
How Klamath River Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #606 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,653 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
Klamath River Volunteer Fire Company is 3.7% of Siskiyou County roster mass
The county lists 39 departments totaling 432 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
12.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 16 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Goldsby Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 16 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.