Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderRedwood City Fire Department
Redwood City, CA · San Mateo County. Redwood City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 72 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.
- 72
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Redwood City Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the California average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +95%
- vs. California average
- 5
- stations
- $4,951,184
- 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.
Redwood City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Redwood City, CA (San Mateo County), with 5 stations and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,814 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,951,184.
- National personnel rank #1,814 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #120 of 721
- 6.94 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in San Mateo County
Redwood City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
72 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 41070 · Redwood City Fire Department, CA 72 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 72
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,814
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Massena Volunteer
- FEMA-MID $5.0M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Massena Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- Redwood City (this dept) 72
- High Forks Township, PA 72
- Near Massena Volunteer, NY 72
- Near Elyria, OH 72
- Near City of South Sal…, UT 72
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Redwood City, CA
- County
- San Mateo County
- FDID
- 41070
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-05131 | $1,320,577.55 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-00372 | $3,630,606.54 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Redwood City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #120 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,814 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Redwood City Fire Department is 8.7% of San Mateo County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 826 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 72 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Massena Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.