Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department

Trinity Center, CA · Trinity County. Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 12 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.

12
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the California average.

4th pct.
national personnel size
-68%
vs. California average
1
station

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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
17/100
Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity F
12 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness D
1 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
12 personnel · 1 station

Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Trinity Center, CA (Trinity County), with 1 station and 12 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,628 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,628 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #668 of 721
  • 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Trinity County

Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

12 Top 96% higher than 4% 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 53015 · Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department, CA 12 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 12
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #21,628
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lavina Volunteer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lavina Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, MT (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Trinity Center, CA
Ambulances
1
FDID
53015

Staffing vs the California average

How Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #668 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,628 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 68% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department is 7.1% of Trinity County roster mass

The county lists 14 departments totaling 168 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 21% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 12 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lavina Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, MT (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 12 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.