Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSanta Rosa Fire Department
Santa Rosa, CA · Sonoma County. Santa Rosa Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 144 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.
- 144
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Santa Rosa Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +289%
- vs. California average
- 8
- 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.
Santa Rosa Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Santa Rosa, CA (Sonoma County), with 8 stations and 144 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #455 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #455 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #40 of 721
- 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 43 other listed departments in Sonoma County
Santa Rosa Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
144 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 49145 · Santa Rosa Fire Department, CA 144 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 144
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #455
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Glen Cove Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Glen Cove Volunteer 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.
- Santa Rosa (this dept) 144
- High Lafayette, IN 144
- Near Glen Cove Volunte…, NY 144
- Near City of Myrtle Be…, SC 144
- Near Lake Shore Volunt…, MD 144
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Santa Rosa, CA
- County
- Sonoma County
- FDID
- 49145
Staffing vs the California average
How Santa Rosa Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #40 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #455 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Sonoma County
County mix is mostly volunteer (28 volunteer / 7 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 144 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Glen Cove Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 144 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.