Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services

Amherst, TX · Lamb County. Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 27 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.

27
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.

47th pct.
national personnel size
-21%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
59/100
Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services

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 C
27 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
27 personnel · 1 station

Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Amherst, TX (Lamb County), with 1 station and 27 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,907 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,907 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #541 of 1,231
  • 3.70 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 4 other listed departments in Lamb County

Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution

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

27 Top 53% higher than 47% 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 PH301 · Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services, TX 27 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 27
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #11,907
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 111th Fighter Win…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: 111th Fighter Wing Pennsylvania Air National Guard Fire Department-Dod, PA (+ 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 TX department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Amherst, TX
FDID
PH301

Staffing vs the Texas average

How Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #541 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,907 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 21% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster weight

Amherst Volunteer Emergency Medical Services carries 34.6% of Lamb County HIFLD personnel

Among 5 listed departments (78 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 60% of the county count. County / state rollup.

3.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 27 roster).

Photo-finish peer: 111th Fighter Wing Pennsylvania Air National Guard Fire Department-Dod, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 27 personnel

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