Department profile

Volunteer

City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department

Horseshoe Bay, TX · Llano County. City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 49 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

49
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Texas average.

Top 18%
national personnel size
+44%
vs. Texas average
3
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
26/100
City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity D
16.3 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
49 personnel · 3 stations

City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Horseshoe Bay, TX (Llano County), with 3 stations and 49 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,139 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,139 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #173 of 1,231
  • 6.12 stations per 100 personnel
  • 6 other listed departments in Llano County

City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

49 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 PX303 · City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department, TX 49 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 49
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #4,139
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harvard Fire Prot…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Harvard Fire Protection District, 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Horseshoe Bay, TX
FDID
PX303

Staffing vs the Texas average

How City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #173 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,139 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 44% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster weight

City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department carries 32.2% of Llano County HIFLD personnel

Among 9 listed departments (152 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 56% of the county count. County / state rollup.

6.12 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 49 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Harvard Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 49 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.