Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station

Santa Rosa, CA · Sonoma County. Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 64 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.

64
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount well above the California average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+73%
vs. California average
4
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
25/100
Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station

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 D
16 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
64 personnel · 4 stations

Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station is a Volunteer department serving Santa Rosa, CA (Sonoma County), with 4 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,333 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,333 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #137 of 721
  • 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 43 other listed departments in Sonoma County

Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station vs. the national personnel distribution

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

64 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 49170 · Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station, CA 64 personnel · 4 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 64
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,333
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Eunice
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Eunice Fire Department, LA (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Santa Rosa, CA
FDID
49170

Staffing vs the California average

How Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #137 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,333 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 73% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Rincon Valley Fire Protection District - Bellevue Station is 5.3% of Sonoma County roster mass

The county lists 58 departments totaling 1,216 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 97% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 64 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Eunice Fire Department, LA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 64 personnel

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