Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderRedding Fire Department
Redding, CA · Shasta County. Redding Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 7 stations and 86 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.
- 86
- Total personnel
- 7
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Redding Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +132%
- vs. California average
- 7
- stations
- $637,872
- 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.
Redding Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Redding, CA (Shasta County), with 7 stations and 86 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,278 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $637,872.
- National personnel rank #1,278 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #89 of 721
- 8.14 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 30 other listed departments in Shasta County
Redding Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
86 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 45055 · Redding Fire Department, CA 86 personnel · 7 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 86
- STA-MULTI 7 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Shaw Air Force Ba…
- FEMA-MID $638K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod, SC (+ 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.
- Redding (this dept) 86
- High San Juan Fire Dep…, UT 86
- Near Shaw Air Force Ba…, SC 86
- Near North Amityville…, NY 86
- Near Stony Brook, NY 86
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY PAID
- Location
- Redding, CA
- County
- Shasta County
- FDID
- 45055
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-01025 | $425,723.49 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-03871 | $212,148.32 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Redding Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #89 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,278 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 7
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Shasta County
County mix is mostly volunteer (27 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
8.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (7 stations / 86 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod, SC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 86 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.