Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBossier City Fire Department
Bossier City, LA · Bossier County. Bossier City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 185 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.
- 185
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bossier City Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +612%
- vs. Louisiana average
- 9
- 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.
Bossier City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Bossier City, LA (Bossier County), with 9 stations and 185 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #263 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #263 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #5 of 342
- 4.86 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 6 other listed departments in Bossier County
Bossier City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
185 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 08010 · Bossier City Fire Department, LA 185 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 185
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #263
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Waco
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Waco Fire Department, TX (+ 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.
- Bossier City (this dept) 185
- High City of Nashua Fi…, NH 185
- Near City of Waco, TX 185
- Near Hammond, IN 185
- Low Reading Fire and…, PA 184
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Bossier City, LA
- County
- Bossier County
- FDID
- 08010
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Bossier City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #5 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #263 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster weight
Bossier City Fire Department carries 43.3% of Bossier County HIFLD personnel
Among 14 listed departments (427 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 36% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.86 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 185 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Waco Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 185 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.