Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Riverside County Fire Department

Lake Elsinore, CA · Riverside County. Riverside County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 75 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.

75
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Riverside County Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.

Top 8%
national personnel size
+103%
vs. California average
3
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
54/100
Riverside County 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 C
25 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
75 personnel · 3 stations

Riverside County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Lake Elsinore, CA (Riverside County), with 3 stations and 75 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,693 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,693 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #112 of 721
  • 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 31 other listed departments in Riverside County

Riverside County Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

75 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 33035 · Riverside County Fire Department, CA 75 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 75
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,693
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Yorkville
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Yorkville 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Lake Elsinore, CA
FDID
33035

Staffing vs the California average

How Riverside County Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #112 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,693 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 103% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Riverside County Fire Department is 2.3% of Riverside County roster mass

The county lists 39 departments totaling 3,195 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 75 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Yorkville Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 75 personnel

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