Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services

Turlock, CA · Stanislaus County. Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 62 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.

62
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the California average.

Top 11%
national personnel size
+68%
vs. California average
4
stations
$835,692
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
37/100
Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services

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 D
15.5 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 C
$13,479 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
62 personnel · 4 stations

Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services is a Volunteer department serving Turlock, CA (Stanislaus County), with 4 stations and 62 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,475 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $835,692.

  • National personnel rank #2,475 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #142 of 721
  • 6.45 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 22 other listed departments in Stanislaus County

Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services vs. the national personnel distribution

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

62 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 50110 · Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services, CA 62 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 62
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,475
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Salmon River Rura…
  • FEMA-MID $836K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Salmon River Rural Fire District, ID (+ 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
Turlock, CA
FDID
50110

FEMA Grant History

$836K
Cumulative funding (FY2011–2017)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2017 EMW2016FO03739 $312,000
2011 EMW2010FH00358 $523,692

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the California average

How Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #142 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,475 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 68% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Turlock City Fire and Emergency Services is 7.4% of Stanislaus County roster mass

The county lists 29 departments totaling 840 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 90% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 62 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Salmon River Rural Fire District, ID (+0 personnel).

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