Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority
Sonoma, CA · Sonoma County. Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 82 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.
- 82
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +122%
- 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.
Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority is a Career (Paid) department serving Sonoma, CA (Sonoma County), with 4 stations and 82 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,404 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,404 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #96 of 721
- 4.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 43 other listed departments in Sonoma County
Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
82 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 49200 · Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority, CA 82 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 82
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,404
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Willoughby
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Willoughby Fire Department, OH (+ 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.
- Sonoma Valley Fir… (this dept) 82
- High Coldenham, NY 82
- Near Willoughby, OH 82
- Near Edgewood Fire and…, KY 82
- Near Valhalla, NY 82
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY PAID
- Location
- Sonoma, CA
- County
- Sonoma County
- FDID
- 49200
Staffing vs the California average
How Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #96 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,404 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
Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority is 6.7% 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.
4.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 82 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Willoughby Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 82 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.