Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders

Dike, TX · Hopkins County. Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 17 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.

17
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.

15th pct.
national personnel size
-50%
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
28/100
Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders

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
17 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
17 personnel · 1 station

Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders is a Volunteer department serving Dike, TX (Hopkins County), with 1 station and 17 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,089 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #19,089 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #970 of 1,231
  • 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 9 other listed departments in Hopkins County

Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders vs. the national personnel distribution

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

17 Top 85% higher than 15% 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 TX-DIKE-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-AND-FIRST-RESPONDER-TX · Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders, TX 17 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 17
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #19,089
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Anchor
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Anchor Fire Department, 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Dike, TX

Staffing vs the Texas average

How Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #970 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,089 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 50% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster geometry

Hopkins County HIFLD mix around Dike Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders

Hopkins County: 10 departments, 134 personnel (7 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 80% of departments. County / state rollup.

5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 17 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Anchor Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 17 personnel

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