Department profile
Career (Paid)Arlington Texas Fire Department
Arlington, TX · Tarrant County. Arlington Texas Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 16 stations and 301 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 301
- Total personnel
- 16
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Arlington Texas Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +785%
- vs. Texas average
- 16
- stations
- $17,000,695
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Arlington Texas Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Arlington, TX (Tarrant County), with 16 stations and 301 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #117 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $17,000,695.
- National personnel rank #117 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #10 of 1,231
- 5.32 stations per 100 personnel
- 35 other listed departments in Tarrant County
Arlington Texas Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
301 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 WB701 · Arlington Texas Fire Department, TX 301 personnel · 16 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 301
- STA-MULTI 16 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #117
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Port Washington
- FEMA-HEAVY $17.0M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Port Washington Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- High Fayetteville, NC 302
- Arlington Texas (this dept) 301
- Near Port Washington, NY 301
- Low Clayton County Fi…, GA 300
- Near Waldorf Volunteer, MD 300
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Arlington, TX
- County
- Tarrant County
- FDID
- WB701
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FF-01925 | $16,567,174.89 |
| 2008 | EMW-2008-FF-0048 | $433,520 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Arlington Texas Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #10 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #117 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 16
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster geometry
Tarrant County HIFLD mix around Arlington Texas Fire Department
Tarrant County: 48 departments, 2,322 personnel (15 volunteer / 17 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 85% of departments. County / state rollup.
5.32 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (16 stations / 301 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Port Washington Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 301 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.