Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Truckee Fire Protection District

Truckee, CA · Nevada County. Truckee Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 47 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.

47
Total personnel
6
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Truckee Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.

Top 20%
national personnel size
+27%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
7/100
Truckee Fire Protection District

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
7.8 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
47 personnel · 6 stations

Truckee Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Truckee, CA (Nevada County), with 6 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,521 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,521 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #226 of 721
  • 12.77 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Nevada County

Truckee Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 29060 · Truckee Fire Protection District, CA 47 personnel · 6 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 47
  • STA-MULTI 6 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,521
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kermit Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Kermit Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY PAID
Location
Truckee, CA
FDID
29060

Staffing vs the California average

How Truckee Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #226 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,521 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 27% above the state average
Stations
6
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Nevada County

County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 4 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

12.77 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 47 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Kermit Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 47 personnel

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