Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOntario Fire Department
Ontario, CA · San Bernardino County. Ontario Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 150 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.
- 150
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Ontario Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +305%
- vs. California average
- 8
- stations
- $2,972,469
- 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.
Ontario Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Ontario, CA (San Bernardino County), with 8 stations and 150 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #417 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,972,469.
- National personnel rank #417 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #38 of 721
- 5.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 44 other listed departments in San Bernardino County
Ontario Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
150 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 36170 · Ontario Fire Department, CA 150 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 150
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #417
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Yellowstone Natio…
- FEMA-MID $3.0M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Yellowstone National Park Fire Department, WY (+ 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.
- Ontario (this dept) 150
- High Tift Volunteer, GA 150
- Near Yellowstone Natio…, WY 150
- Near Islip Terrace, NY 150
- Near Kennedy Space Cen…, FL 150
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Ontario, CA
- County
- San Bernardino County
- FDID
- 36170
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | EMW2013FR00269 | $1,618,469 |
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FC-0240 | $1,354,000 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Ontario Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #38 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #417 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Ontario Fire Department is 8.1% of San Bernardino County roster mass
The county lists 60 departments totaling 1,856 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 150 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Yellowstone National Park Fire Department, WY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 150 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.