Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Mount Shasta City Fire Department

Mount Shasta, CA · Siskiyou County. Mount Shasta City Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 36 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.

36
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Mount Shasta City Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the California average.

Top 33%
national personnel size
-3%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
Mount Shasta City 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 D
18 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
36 personnel · 2 stations

Mount Shasta City Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Mount Shasta, CA (Siskiyou County), with 2 stations and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,392 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,392 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #305 of 721
  • 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 34 other listed departments in Siskiyou County

Mount Shasta City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 47060 · Mount Shasta City Fire Department, CA 36 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #7,392
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cleveland Rural
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cleveland Rural Fire Department, ND (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Mount Shasta, CA
FDID
47060

Staffing vs the California average

How Mount Shasta City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #305 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,392 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 3% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Mount Shasta City Fire Department is 8.3% of Siskiyou County roster mass

The county lists 39 departments totaling 432 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 77% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cleveland Rural Fire Department, ND (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel

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