Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

College Station Fire Department Ambulance

College Station, TX · Brazos County. College Station Fire Department Ambulance is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 114 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.

114
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

College Station Fire Department Ambulance pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.

Top 3%
national personnel size
+235%
vs. Texas average
4
stations
$11,412,000
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
63/100
College Station Fire Department Ambulance

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 B
28.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
114 personnel · 4 stations

College Station Fire Department Ambulance is a Career (Paid) department serving College Station, TX (Brazos County), with 4 stations and 114 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #738 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $11,412,000.

  • National personnel rank #738 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #47 of 1,231
  • 3.51 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 6 other listed departments in Brazos County

College Station Fire Department Ambulance vs. the national personnel distribution

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

114 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 BC605 · College Station Fire Department Ambulance, TX 114 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 114
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #738
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lisle-Woodridge F…
  • FEMA-HEAVY $11.4M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lisle-Woodridge Fire District, 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
College Station, TX
FDID
BC605

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2012–2024)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2024 EMW-2024-FF-00005 $2,572,850.99
2023 EMW-2023-FF-00048 $3,874,618.44
2022 EMW-2022-FG-02417 $223,940
2021 EMW-2021-FF-00278 $1,942,269
2020 EMW-2020-FG-12770 $636,654.55
2018 EMW-2018-FH-00283 $908,223.38
2018 EMW-2018-FO-01385 $286,906
2016 EMW2014FH00380 $756,370
2012 EMW2011FO08807 $210,168

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Texas average

How College Station Fire Department Ambulance's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #47 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #738 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 235% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster weight

College Station Fire Department Ambulance carries 37.5% of Brazos County HIFLD personnel

Among 11 listed departments (304 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 36% of the county count. County / state rollup.

3.51 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 114 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lisle-Woodridge Fire District, IL (+0 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 114 personnel

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