Department profile
Career (Paid)Marina Fire Department
Marina, CA · Monterey County. Marina Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 57 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 57
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Marina Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the California average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +54%
- vs. California average
- 2
- stations
- $1,974,531
- 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.
Marina Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Marina, CA (Monterey County), with 2 stations and 57 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,917 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,974,531.
- National personnel rank #2,917 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #164 of 721
- 3.51 stations per 100 personnel
- 29 other listed departments in Monterey County
Marina Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
57 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 27055 · Marina Fire Department, CA 57 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 57
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #2,917
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Prairie Township
- FEMA-MID $2.0M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Prairie Township Fire Department, OH (+ 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.
- Marina (this dept) 57
- High Hanover, MA 57
- Near Prairie Township, OH 57
- Near Greenfield, IN 57
- Near Boiling Springs F…, SC 57
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY PAID
- Location
- Marina, CA
- County
- Monterey County
- FDID
- 27055
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FF-01257 | $385,000 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FH-00503 | $923,612.77 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FF00409 | $168,040 |
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FC-0519 | $497,878 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Marina Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #164 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,917 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
Marina Fire Department is 6.3% of Monterey County roster mass
The county lists 35 departments totaling 901 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.51 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 57 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Prairie Township Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 57 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.