Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderWoodside Fire Protection District
Redwood City, CA · San Mateo County. Woodside Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 46 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.
- 46
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Woodside Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the California average.
- Top 21%
- national personnel size
- +24%
- vs. California average
- 3
- 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.
Woodside Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Redwood City, CA (San Mateo County), with 3 stations and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,704 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,704 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #234 of 721
- 6.52 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in San Mateo County
Woodside Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 41105 · Woodside Fire Protection District, CA 46 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 46
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,704
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Citizens Hose Com…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Citizens Hose Company of Jersey Shore, PA (+ 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.
- Woodside Fire Pro… (this dept) 46
- High Oneonta, NY 46
- Near Citizens Hose Com…, PA 46
- Near Speigletown Distr…, NY 46
- Near Ocean City-Wright…, FL 46
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Redwood City, CA
- County
- San Mateo County
- FDID
- 41105
Staffing vs the California average
How Woodside Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #234 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,704 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Woodside Fire Protection District is 5.6% of San Mateo County roster mass
The county lists 29 departments totaling 826 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.52 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 46 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Citizens Hose Company of Jersey Shore, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 46 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.