Department profile
Career (Paid)Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety
Dallas, TX · Tarrant County. Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 165 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 165
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +385%
- vs. Texas average
- 4
- stations
- $20,090,594
- 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.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety is a Career (Paid) department serving Dallas, TX (Tarrant County), with 4 stations and 165 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #338 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $20,090,594.
- National personnel rank #338 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #27 of 1,231
- 2.42 stations per 100 personnel
- 35 other listed departments in Tarrant County
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
165 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 DH710 · Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety, TX 165 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 165
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #338
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Arvada Fire Prote…
- FEMA-HEAVY $20.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Arvada Fire Protection District, CO (+ 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.
- Dallas-Fort Worth… (this dept) 165
- High Holley, NY 165
- Near Arvada Fire Prote…, CO 165
- Near Odenton Volunteer, MD 165
- Near Luzerne Township…, PA 165
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Dallas, TX
- County
- Tarrant County
- FDID
- DH710
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-05533 | $1,636,363.63 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-03815 | $1,380,570.43 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-07748 | $559,090.9 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FP-00930 | $204,761.9 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FF-01787 | $9,555,819.65 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FH-00424 | $1,873,026.32 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-03478 | $428,864 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-05446 | $568,172 |
| 2013 | EMW2013FH00820 | $3,883,925 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #27 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #338 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety is 7.1% of Tarrant County roster mass
The county lists 48 departments totaling 2,322 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.42 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 165 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Arvada Fire Protection District, CO (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 165 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.