Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderManhattan Beach Fire Department
Manhattan Beach, CA · Los Angeles County. Manhattan Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 54 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.
- 54
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Manhattan Beach Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +46%
- 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.
Manhattan Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Manhattan Beach, CA (Los Angeles County), with 2 stations and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,362 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,362 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #175 of 721
- 3.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 45 other listed departments in Los Angeles County
Manhattan Beach Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
54 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 19120 · Manhattan Beach Fire Department, CA 54 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 54
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,362
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Rahway
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Rahway Fire Department, NJ (+ 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.
- Manhattan Beach (this dept) 54
- High Broadalbin-Kennye…, NY 54
- Near Rahway, NJ 54
- Near Campbellsport Vol…, WI 54
- Near Green Knoll Fire…, NJ 54
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Manhattan Beach, CA
- County
- Los Angeles County
- FDID
- 19120
Staffing vs the California average
How Manhattan Beach Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #175 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,362 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
Manhattan Beach Fire Department is 0.7% of Los Angeles County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 7,350 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 54 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Rahway Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 54 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.