Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOnizuka Fire and Emergency Services
Sunnyvale, CA · Santa Clara County. Onizuka Fire and Emergency Services is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 5 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.
- 5
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Onizuka Fire and Emergency Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the California average.
- 0th pct.
- national personnel size
- -86%
- 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.
Onizuka Fire and Emergency Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Sunnyvale, CA (Santa Clara County), with 1 station and 5 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,384 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,384 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #714 of 721
- 20.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 21 other listed departments in Santa Clara County
Onizuka Fire and Emergency Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
5 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 43815 · Onizuka Fire and Emergency Services, CA 5 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 5
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #22,384
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Smithfield Volunt…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Smithfield Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 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.
- Onizuka Fire and… (this dept) 5
- High Moundsville, WV 5
- Near Smithfield Volunt…, WV 5
- Near Ruby Volunteer, AK 5
- Near Sioux-Yellowstone…, ND 5
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
- County
- Santa Clara County
- FDID
- 43815
Staffing vs the California average
How Onizuka Fire and Emergency Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #714 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,384 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
Onizuka Fire and Emergency Services is 0.2% of Santa Clara County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 2,203 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
20.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 5 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Smithfield Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 5 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.