Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Weott Volunteer Fire Department

Weott, CA · Humboldt County. Weott Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 11 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.

11
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

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

3rd pct.
national personnel size
-70%
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
9/100
Weott 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
11 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
11 personnel · 1 station

Weott Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Weott, CA (Humboldt County), with 1 station and 11 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,797 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,797 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #677 of 721
  • 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 46 other listed departments in Humboldt County

Weott Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

11 Top 97% higher than 3% 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 12125 · Weott Volunteer Fire Department, CA 11 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 11
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #21,797
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sundance Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Sundance Volunteer Fire Department, WY (+ 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
Weott, CA
FDID
12125

Staffing vs the California average

How Weott Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #677 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,797 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 70% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Weott Volunteer Fire Department is 1.9% of Humboldt County roster mass

The county lists 51 departments totaling 570 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 76% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 11 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Sundance Volunteer Fire Department, WY (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 11 personnel

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