Department profile
Career (Paid)Wasco State Prison Fire Department
Wasco, CA · Kern County. Wasco State Prison Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 15
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Wasco State Prison Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the California average.
- 8th pct.
- national personnel size
- -59%
- 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.
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.
Wasco State Prison Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Wasco, CA (Kern County), with 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,569 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #20,569 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #632 of 721
- 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in Kern County
Wasco State Prison Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
15 Top 92% higher than 8% 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 15411 · Wasco State Prison Fire Department, CA 15 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 15
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-LOWER #20,569
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jay Em Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Jay Em Volunteer Fire Department, WY (+ 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.
- Wasco State Prison (this dept) 15
- High Coatesville Depar…, PA 15
- Near Jay Em Volunteer, WY 15
- Near Springhill Volunt…, GA 15
- Near Tyrone Volunteer, GA 15
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Wasco, CA
- County
- Kern County
- FDID
- 15411
Staffing vs the California average
How Wasco State Prison Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #632 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,569 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Wasco State Prison Fire Department is 1.4% of Kern County roster mass
The county lists 14 departments totaling 1,050 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 15 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Jay Em Volunteer Fire Department, WY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 15 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.