Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBoonsville Balsora Volunteer Fire Department First Responders
Bridgeport, TX · Wise County. Boonsville Balsora Volunteer Fire Department First Responders is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 23 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.
- 23
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Boonsville Balsora Volunteer Fire Department First Responders pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.
- 33rd pct.
- national personnel size
- -32%
- vs. Texas average
- 2
- 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.
Boonsville Balsora Volunteer Fire Department First Responders is a Volunteer department serving Bridgeport, TX (Wise County), with 2 stations and 23 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #14,935 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #14,935 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #693 of 1,231
- 8.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 18 other listed departments in Wise County
Boonsville Balsora Volunteer Fire Department First Responders vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
23 Top 67% higher than 33% 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 XY102 · Boonsville Balsora Volunteer Fire Department First Responders, TX 23 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 23
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #14,935
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Agency Township
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Agency Township Fire Department, KS (+ 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.
- Boonsville Balsor… (this dept) 23
- High Atlanta Fire Prot…, IL 23
- Near Agency Township, KS 23
- Near Albert Volunteer, KS 23
- Near Arrowsmith, IL 23
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bridgeport, TX
- County
- Wise County
- FDID
- XY102
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Boonsville Balsora Volunteer Fire Department First Responders's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #693 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #14,935 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Boonsville Balsora Volunteer Fire Department First Responders is 8.6% of Wise County roster mass
The county lists 19 departments totaling 267 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 32% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 23 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Agency Township Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 23 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.