Department profile
OtherCarlyss Fire Department
Sulphur, LA · Calcasieu County. Carlyss Fire Department is a fire department and 32 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 32
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Carlyss Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Louisiana average.
- Top 40%
- national personnel size
- +23%
- vs. Louisiana average
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.
Carlyss Fire Department is a fire department serving Sulphur, LA (Calcasieu County) and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,987 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,987 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #112 of 342
- 12 other listed departments in Calcasieu County
Carlyss Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
32 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 10001 · Carlyss Fire Department, LA 32 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 32
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #8,987
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Butler Volun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: East Butler Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every LA department.
- Carlyss (this dept) 32
- High Lake Forest Volun…, MO 32
- Near East Butler Volun…, PA 32
- Near Utica Township Vo…, IN 32
- Near Bartlett Fire Dep…, NH 32
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Sulphur, LA
- County
- Calcasieu County
- FDID
- 10001
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Carlyss Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #112 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,987 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster fringe
Carlyss Fire Department is 5.4% of Calcasieu County roster mass
The county lists 22 departments totaling 594 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 36% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: East Butler Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 32 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.