Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSan Marcos Fire Protection District
San Marcos, CA · San Diego County. San Marcos Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 81 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.
- 81
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
San Marcos Fire Protection District pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +119%
- 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 Marcos Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving San Marcos, CA (San Diego County), with 4 stations and 81 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,437 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,437 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #100 of 721
- 4.94 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 63 other listed departments in San Diego County
San Marcos Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
81 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 37145 · San Marcos Fire Protection District, CA 81 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 81
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,437
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Camden-Wyoming Vo…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Camden-Wyoming Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, DE (+ 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 Marcos Fire P… (this dept) 81
- High Hot Springs Villa…, AR 81
- Near Camden-Wyoming Vo…, DE 81
- Near Grafton Volunteer…, WI 81
- Near Round Lake Volunt…, NY 81
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- San Marcos, CA
- County
- San Diego County
- FDID
- 37145
Staffing vs the California average
How San Marcos Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #100 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,437 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 Marcos Fire Protection District is 2.2% of San Diego County roster mass
The county lists 83 departments totaling 3,721 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 81 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Camden-Wyoming Volunteer Fire Company Incorporated, DE (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 81 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.