Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderLake Valley Fire Protection District
South Lake Tahoe, CA · El Dorado County. Lake Valley Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 48 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.
- 48
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lake Valley Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- +30%
- vs. California average
- 3
- stations
- $834,604
- 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.
Lake Valley Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving South Lake Tahoe, CA (El Dorado County), with 3 stations and 48 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,294 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $834,604.
- National personnel rank #4,294 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #218 of 721
- 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in El Dorado County
Lake Valley Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
48 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 09065 · Lake Valley Fire Protection District, CA 48 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 48
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,294
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Essex
- FEMA-MID $835K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Essex Fire Department, MA (+ 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.
- Lake Valley Fire… (this dept) 48
- High Cottleville Commu…, MO 48
- Near Essex, MA 48
- Near Henderson, NC 48
- Near Van Vleet Volunte…, MS 48
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY PAID
- Location
- South Lake Tahoe, CA
- County
- El Dorado County
- FDID
- 09065
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | EMW2013FV01652 | $256,500 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FH-0090 | $578,104 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Lake Valley Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #218 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,294 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
Lake Valley Fire Protection District is 6.5% of El Dorado County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 744 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 96% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 48 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Essex Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 48 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.