Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderUnited States Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department
Palmdale, CA · Los Angeles County. United States Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department is a fire department, 2 stations and 52 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.
- 52
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
United States Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 16%
- national personnel size
- +41%
- vs. California average
- 2
- 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.
United States Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department is a fire department serving Palmdale, CA (Los Angeles County), with 2 stations and 52 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,665 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,665 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #191 of 721
- 3.85 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 45 other listed departments in Los Angeles County
United States Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
52 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 CA-UNITED-STATES-AIR-FORCE-PLANT-42-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-CA · United States Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department, CA 52 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 52
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,665
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bedford Township…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bedford Township Fire Protection District, IL (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every CA department.
- United States Air… (this dept) 52
- High Effingham, IL 52
- Near Bedford Township…, IL 52
- Near Bexar-Bulverde Vo…, TX 52
- Near Cedarville Fire P…, IL 52
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Palmdale, CA
- County
- Los Angeles County
Staffing vs the California average
How United States Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #191 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,665 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
United States Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department is 0.7% 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.
3.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 52 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bedford Township Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 52 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.