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Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services

Danbury, TX · Brazoria County. Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 15 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.

15
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Texas average.

10th pct.
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
21/100
Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services

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
15 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
15 personnel · 1 station

Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Danbury, TX (Brazoria County), with 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,094 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,094 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #1,053 of 1,231
  • 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 23 other listed departments in Brazoria County

Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution

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

15 Top 90% higher than 10% 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 BB410 · Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, TX 15 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 15
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #20,094
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alta Vista City
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Alta Vista City Fire Department, KS (+ 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Danbury, TX
FDID
BB410

Staffing vs the Texas average

How Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #1,053 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,094 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 56% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster fringe

Danbury Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is 2.6% of Brazoria County roster mass

The county lists 28 departments totaling 572 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 14% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 15 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Alta Vista City Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 15 personnel

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