Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Lodi Fire Department

Lodi, CA · San Joaquin County. Lodi Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 58 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.

58
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lodi Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the California average.

Top 13%
national personnel size
+57%
vs. California average
4
stations
$930,927
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
19/100
Lodi Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity F
14.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
58 personnel · 4 stations

Lodi Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Lodi, CA (San Joaquin County), with 4 stations and 58 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,839 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $930,927.

  • National personnel rank #2,839 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #158 of 721
  • 6.90 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 22 other listed departments in San Joaquin County

Lodi Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

58 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 39045 · Lodi Fire Department, CA 58 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 58
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,839
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Green River
  • FEMA-MID $931K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Green River Fire Department, WY (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
PAID
Location
Lodi, CA
FDID
39045

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2021)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2021 EMW-2021-FG-01313 $930,927.27

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the California average

How Lodi Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #158 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,839 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 57% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Lodi Fire Department is 6.5% of San Joaquin County roster mass

The county lists 29 departments totaling 892 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.90 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 58 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Green River Fire Department, WY (+0 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 58 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.