Department profile

Volunteer

Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company

Montague, CA · Siskiyou County. Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 9 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

9
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the California average.

1st pct.
national personnel size
-76%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
4/100
Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company

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
4.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
9 personnel · 2 stations

Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Montague, CA (Siskiyou County), with 2 stations and 9 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,130 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,130 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #695 of 721
  • 22.22 stations per 100 personnel
  • 34 other listed departments in Siskiyou County

Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution

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

9 Top 99% higher than 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 47067 · Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company, CA 9 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MICRO · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 9
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #22,130
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Marshall Township…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, IN (+ 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Montague, CA
FDID
47067

Staffing vs the California average

How Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #695 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,130 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 76% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company is 2.1% 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.

22.22 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 9 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, IN (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 9 personnel

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