Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Ontario International Airport Fire Department

Ontario, CA · San Bernardino County. Ontario International Airport Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 65 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.

65
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Ontario International Airport Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the California average.

Top 10%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
74/100
Ontario International Airport 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 B
32.5 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
65 personnel · 2 stations

Ontario International Airport Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Ontario, CA (San Bernardino County), with 2 stations and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,249 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,249 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #133 of 721
  • 3.08 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 44 other listed departments in San Bernardino County

Ontario International Airport Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

65 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 36275 · Ontario International Airport Fire Department, CA 65 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 65
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,249
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bart Township Fir…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bart Township Fire Company Station Qrs 5-1, PA (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
PAID
Location
Ontario, CA
FDID
36275

Staffing vs the California average

How Ontario International Airport Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #133 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,249 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

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

County roster fringe

Ontario International Airport Fire Department is 3.5% 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.

3.08 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 65 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bart Township Fire Company Station Qrs 5-1, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 65 personnel

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