Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderConverse Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Converse, TX · Bexar County. Converse Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 33 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.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Converse Fire and Emergency Medical Services pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Texas average.
- Top 38%
- national personnel size
- -3%
- vs. Texas average
- 2
- stations
- $761,996
- 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.
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.
Converse Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Converse, TX (Bexar County), with 2 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,640 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $761,996.
- National personnel rank #8,640 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #365 of 1,231
- 6.06 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 35 other listed departments in Bexar County
Converse Fire and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
33 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 AW405 · Converse Fire and Emergency Medical Services, TX 33 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,640
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aviston Fire Prot…
- FEMA-MID $762K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Aviston Fire Protection 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.
- Converse Fire and… (this dept) 33
- High Breese Volunteer…, IL 33
- Near Aviston Fire Prot…, IL 33
- Near Bar Harbor Ambula…, ME 33
- Near Bradford Volunteer, ME 33
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Converse, TX
- County
- Bexar County
- FDID
- AW405
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00556 | $566,155.5 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FO00932 | $195,840 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Converse Fire and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #365 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,640 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Converse Fire and Emergency Medical Services is 1.5% of Bexar County roster mass
The county lists 37 departments totaling 2,235 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.06 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Aviston Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.