Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAlamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services
San Antonio, TX · Bexar County. Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 25 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.
- 25
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.
- 42nd pct.
- national personnel size
- -26%
- vs. Texas 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.
Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving San Antonio, TX (Bexar County), with 1 station and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #12,988 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #12,988 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #593 of 1,231
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 35 other listed departments in Bexar County
Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
25 Top 58% higher than 42% 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 AW501 · Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, TX 25 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 25
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #12,988
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Addieville Commun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Addieville Community Fire Protection District, IL (+ 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 TX department.
- Alamo Heights Fir… (this dept) 25
- High Alligator Fire Di…, SC 25
- Near Addieville Commun…, IL 25
- Near Albion, ME 25
- Near Aledo Fire Protec…, IL 25
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- San Antonio, TX
- County
- Bexar County
- FDID
- AW501
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #593 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #12,988 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is 1.1% of Bexar County roster mass
The county lists 37 departments totaling 2,235 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 25 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Addieville Community Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 25 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.