Department profile
Career (Paid)Mesa Grande Fire Department
Santa Ysabel, CA · San Diego County. Mesa Grande Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 4 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 4
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Mesa Grande Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the California average.
- 0th pct.
- national personnel size
- -89%
- vs. California average
- 1
- station
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.
Mesa Grande Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Santa Ysabel, CA (San Diego County), with 1 station and 4 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,400 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,400 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #717 of 721
- 25.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 63 other listed departments in San Diego County
Mesa Grande Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
4 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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 37101 · Mesa Grande Fire Department, CA 4 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 4
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-LOWER #22,400
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Delaware Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Delaware Volunteer Fire Department, AR (+ 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.
- Mesa Grande (this dept) 4
- High Awendaw Fire Dist…, SC 4
- Near Delaware Volunteer, AR 4
- Near Felda Volunteer, FL 4
- Near Stone Lake Volunt…, WI 4
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Santa Ysabel, CA
- County
- San Diego County
- FDID
- 37101
Staffing vs the California average
How Mesa Grande Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #717 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,400 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Mesa Grande Fire Department is 0.1% 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.
25.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 4 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Delaware Volunteer Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 4 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.