Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSan Bernardino County Fire Department
Hesperia, CA · San Bernardino County. San Bernardino County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 46 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.
- 46
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
San Bernardino County Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 21%
- national personnel size
- +24%
- 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.
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.
San Bernardino County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Hesperia, CA (San Bernardino County), with 4 stations and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,674 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,674 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #232 of 721
- 8.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 44 other listed departments in San Bernardino County
San Bernardino County Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 36105 · San Bernardino County Fire Department, CA 46 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 46
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,674
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Unionville
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Unionville 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.
- San Bernardino Co… (this dept) 46
- High South Jordan, UT 46
- Near Unionville, NY 46
- Near Striggersville Vo…, TN 46
- Near Oaks Corners Volu…, NY 46
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Hesperia, CA
- County
- San Bernardino County
- Ambulances
- 3
- FDID
- 36105
Staffing vs the California average
How San Bernardino County Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #232 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,674 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
San Bernardino County Fire Department is 2.5% of San Bernardino County roster mass
The county lists 60 departments totaling 1,856 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 46 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Unionville Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 46 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.