Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTorrance Fire Department Fire
Torrance, CA · Los Angeles County. Torrance Fire Department Fire is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 181 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.
- 181
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Torrance Fire Department Fire pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +389%
- vs. California average
- 6
- 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.
Torrance Fire Department Fire is a Career (Paid) department serving Torrance, CA (Los Angeles County), with 6 stations and 181 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #278 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #278 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #27 of 721
- 3.31 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 45 other listed departments in Los Angeles County
Torrance Fire Department Fire vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
181 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 19200 · Torrance Fire Department Fire, CA 181 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 181
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Salina
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Salina Fire Department, KS (+ 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.
- Torrance Fire Dep… (this dept) 181
- High Salina, KS 181
- Low Salisbury, MD 180
- Near South Amboy Fire…, NJ 180
- Near Trenton Fire and…, NJ 180
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Torrance, CA
- County
- Los Angeles County
- FDID
- 19200
Staffing vs the California average
How Torrance Fire Department Fire's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #27 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #278 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Torrance Fire Department Fire is 2.5% of Los Angeles County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 7,350 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.31 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 181 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Salina Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 181 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.