Department profile
Career (Paid)Bastrop Fire Department - Central Station
Bastrop, LA · Morehouse County. Bastrop Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 50 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 50
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Bastrop Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Louisiana average.
- Top 17%
- national personnel size
- +92%
- vs. Louisiana average
- 4
- 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.
Bastrop Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Bastrop, LA (Morehouse County), with 4 stations and 50 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,792 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,792 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #45 of 342
- 8.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 5 other listed departments in Morehouse County
Bastrop Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
50 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 34001 · Bastrop Fire Department - Central Station, LA 50 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 50
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,792
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Walhalla
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Walhalla Fire Department, ND (+ 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 LA department.
- Bastrop Fire Depa… (this dept) 50
- High Volunteer Fire Co…, NY 50
- Near Walhalla, ND 50
- Near Clearmont Fire Di…, WY 50
- Near Willowvale Fire C…, NY 50
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Bastrop, LA
- County
- Morehouse County
- FDID
- 34001
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Bastrop Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #45 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,792 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster weight
Bastrop Fire Department - Central Station carries 45.5% of Morehouse County HIFLD personnel
Among 8 listed departments (110 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 13% of the county count. County / state rollup.
8.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 50 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Walhalla Fire Department, ND (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 50 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.