Department profile
Career (Paid)Austin Fire Department
Austin, TX · Travis County. Austin Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 42 stations and 1,100 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 1,100
- Total personnel
- 42
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Austin Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +3135%
- vs. Texas average
- 42
- 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.
Austin Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Austin, TX (Travis County), with 42 stations and 1,100 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #16 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #4 of 1,231
- 3.82 stations per 100 personnel
- 5 other listed departments in Travis County
Austin Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
1,100 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 WP801 · Austin Fire Department, TX 1,100 personnel · 42 stations
PERS-METRO · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-METRO 1,100
- STA-SYSTEM 42 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #16
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clark County
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Clark County Fire Department, NV ( -15 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.
- Austin (this dept) 1,100
- Near Clark County, NV 1,085
- Near Charlotte, NC 1,082
- Near Seattle, WA 1,078
- Low Oklahoma City, OK 1,031
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Austin, TX
- County
- Travis County
- FDID
- WP801
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Austin Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #4 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 42
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Austin Fire Department carries 67.4% of Travis County HIFLD personnel
Among 16 listed departments (1,631 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 25% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (42 stations / 1,100 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Clark County Fire Department, NV (-15 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 1,100 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.