Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Russian River Fire Protection District

Guerneville, CA · Sonoma County. Russian River Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 19 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.

19
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Russian River Fire Protection District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the California average.

19th pct.
national personnel size
-49%
vs. California average
1
station

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
48/100
Russian River Fire Protection District

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
19 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness B
3 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
19 personnel · 1 station

Russian River Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Guerneville, CA (Sonoma County), with 1 station and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,173 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,173 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #554 of 721
  • 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 43 other listed departments in Sonoma County

Russian River Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

19 Top 81% higher than 19% 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 49075 · Russian River Fire Protection District, CA 19 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 19
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,173
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Turquoise Trail V…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Turquoise Trail Volunteer Fire Department Ambulance, NM (+ 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
Guerneville, CA
Ambulances
3
FDID
49075

Staffing vs the California average

How Russian River Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #554 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,173 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 49% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Russian River Fire Protection District is 1.6% 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.

5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 19 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Turquoise Trail Volunteer Fire Department Ambulance, NM (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 19 personnel

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