Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCat Springs Volunteer Fire Department
Cat Spring, TX · Austin County. Cat Springs Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 53 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.
- 53
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cat Springs Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Texas average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +56%
- vs. Texas average
- 1
- station
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.
Cat Springs Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Cat Spring, TX (Austin County), with 1 station and 53 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,420 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,420 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #154 of 1,231
- 1.89 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 4 other listed departments in Austin County
Cat Springs Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
53 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 AK202 · Cat Springs Volunteer Fire Department, TX 53 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 53
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,420
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Abbott North Chic…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Abbott North Chicago Fire Department, IL (+ 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.
- Cat Springs Volun… (this dept) 53
- High Leawood, KS 53
- Near Abbott North Chic…, IL 53
- Near Acton Volunteer, ME 53
- Near Arkansas City Fir…, KS 53
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cat Spring, TX
- County
- Austin County
- FDID
- AK202
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Cat Springs Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #154 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,420 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Cat Springs Volunteer Fire Department carries 50.0% of Austin County HIFLD personnel
Among 5 listed departments (106 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 60% of the county count. County / state rollup.
1.89 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 53 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Abbott North Chicago Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 53 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.