Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderLA Mesa Fire District
La Mesa, CA · San Diego County. LA Mesa Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 52 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.
- 52
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
LA Mesa Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 16%
- national personnel size
- +41%
- vs. California average
- 3
- 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.
LA Mesa Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving La Mesa, CA (San Diego County), with 3 stations and 52 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,597 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,597 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #186 of 721
- 5.77 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 63 other listed departments in San Diego County
LA Mesa Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
52 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 37095 · LA Mesa Fire District, CA 52 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 52
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,597
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Shelby Volun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: East Shelby Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+ 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.
- LA Mesa Fire Dist… (this dept) 52
- High Eden Fire Company, PA 52
- Near East Shelby Volun…, NY 52
- Near Palermo Volunteer…, NY 52
- Near Rawlinsville Fire…, PA 52
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- La Mesa, CA
- County
- San Diego County
- FDID
- 37095
Staffing vs the California average
How LA Mesa Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #186 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,597 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
LA Mesa Fire District is 1.4% of San Diego County roster mass
The county lists 83 departments totaling 3,721 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.77 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 52 roster).
Photo-finish peer: East Shelby Volunteer Fire Company, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 52 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.