Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPresidio Fire and Emergency Medical Services
San Francisco, CA · San Francisco County. Presidio Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Presidio Fire and Emergency Medical Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +16%
- 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.
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.
Presidio Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving San Francisco, CA (San Francisco County), with 2 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,363 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,363 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #252 of 721
- 4.65 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 3 other listed departments in San Francisco County
Presidio Fire and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 38805 · Presidio Fire and Emergency Medical Services, CA 43 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,363
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harveys Lake Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Harveys Lake Fire and Ambulance Company, 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.
- Presidio Fire and… (this dept) 43
- High Huntington City, IN 43
- Near Harveys Lake Fire…, PA 43
- Near Hales Corners, WI 43
- Near Berlin Volunteer, NY 43
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- County
- San Francisco County
- FDID
- 38805
Staffing vs the California average
How Presidio Fire and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #252 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,363 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Presidio Fire and Emergency Medical Services is 2.3% of San Francisco County roster mass
The county lists 4 departments totaling 1,878 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.65 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Harveys Lake Fire and Ambulance Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.