Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBrownsville Fire Department - Central Station
Brownsville, TX · Cameron County. Brownsville Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 183 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.
- 183
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Brownsville Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +438%
- vs. Texas 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.
Brownsville Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Brownsville, TX (Cameron County), with 9 stations and 183 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #271 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #271 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #24 of 1,231
- 4.92 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 8 other listed departments in Cameron County
Brownsville Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
183 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 BV701 · Brownsville Fire Department - Central Station, TX 183 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 183
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #271
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Joliet
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Joliet Fire Department, IL (+ 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 Harrison County F…, MS 184
- Brownsville Fire… (this dept) 183
- Near Joliet, IL 183
- Near City of Vancouver, WA 183
- Near Casper Fire and E…, WY 183
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Brownsville, TX
- County
- Cameron County
- FDID
- BV701
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Brownsville Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #24 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #271 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Brownsville Fire Department - Central Station carries 42.5% of Cameron County HIFLD personnel
Among 11 listed departments (431 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 36% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.92 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 183 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Joliet Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 183 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.