The District operates out of an Administrative Office and three stations, and responds to about 6,700 incidents per year. The Administrative Officers are located at 28 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 2800 in Sausalito; Station 9 in Strawberry houses an Engine, Paramedic Medium Rescue, Battalion Chief and a California RTF Swift Water Rescue Unit. The Tamalpais Valley Station, (Station 4) houses a Type 1 (Municipal) Engine, a Type 3 (Wildland) Engine, Ladder Truck and a Paramedic Ambulance. The Sausalito Station (Station 1) houses a Type 1 (Municipal) Engine, a Paramedic Ambulance and a dive unit. The crews there cross-staff Fireboat Liberty, and an Inflatable Rescue Boat, and are members of the Dive Team.  The Downtown Mill Valley Station (Station 6) houses a Type 1 (Municipal)  Engine and a Reserve Ambulance, and the Mill Valley Station off Hamilton Drive, (Station 7), houses a Type 1 (Municipal)  Engine, and a Type 3 (Wildland) Engine.  There is an on-duty strength of 21 personnel 24/7/365.

In December 2022, Marin LAFCo approved the application for the annexation of the City of Mill Valley's Fire & EMS services.  The Mill Valley Fire Department was dissolved and consolidated into the Southern Marin Fire Protection District on July 1, 2023.

In addition to our own area, the District provides emergency response services to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Beach, and the Muir Woods National Monument through a contract with the US Department of the Interior. The District also provides a regional rescue unit which serves all of the above areas, the Tiburon Peninsula, and the Golden Gate Bridge area.

The Fire District, in 2015, contracted with CityGate Associates, LLC, for the purposes of conducting a Fire & EMS Deployment Analysis, or Standards of Response Coverage (SOC) Report. Completed in 2016 the Report, Volume 1 & 2, are linked below.

In early 2024, the District again contracted with CityGate Associates, LLC, to conduct a master plan analysis, which includes an updated SOC Analysis and Report.  The final report will be used to inform the next Strategic Planning Process in late 2024.  The final Master Plan Report, Volumes 1 & 2, will be published to the website when completed.

Operational Performance

The Southern Marin Fire District's Operational Performance and Community Demographics can be viewed here at MySideWalk.

Standards of Coverage and Deployment Analyses

• Southern Marin FPD Executive Summary Volume 1 (09-22-2016)
• Southern Marin FPD Executive Summary Volume 2 (09-22-2016)
• Mill Valley Fire & EMS Deployment Analysis
• Southern Marin Emergency Medical Paramedic System Resource Deployment and High Level Fiscal Analysis