Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSacramento City Fire Department
Sacramento, CA · Sacramento County. Sacramento City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 22 stations and 572 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.
- 572
- Total personnel
- 22
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Sacramento City Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +1446%
- vs. California average
- 22
- 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.
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.
Sacramento City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Sacramento, CA (Sacramento County), with 22 stations and 572 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #47 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #47 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #8 of 721
- 3.85 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Sacramento County
Sacramento City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
572 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 34080 · Sacramento City Fire Department, CA 572 personnel · 22 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 572
- STA-SYSTEM 22 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #47
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Baton Rouge Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop, LA (+ 3 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.
- High Shreveport, LA 575
- Near Baton Rouge Fire…, LA 575
- Sacramento City (this dept) 572
- Near Lexington-Fayette…, KY 558
- Low Raleigh, NC 549
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
- County
- Sacramento County
- FDID
- 34080
Staffing vs the California average
How Sacramento City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #8 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #47 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 22
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster weight
Sacramento City Fire Department carries 36.1% of Sacramento County HIFLD personnel
Among 22 listed departments (1,585 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 27% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (22 stations / 572 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop, LA (+3 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 572 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.