Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDuncanville Fire Department
Duncanville, TX · Dallas County. Duncanville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 55 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.
- 55
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Duncanville Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Texas average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +62%
- vs. Texas average
- 2
- stations
- $357,660
- 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.
Duncanville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Duncanville, TX (Dallas County), with 2 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,129 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $357,660.
- National personnel rank #3,129 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #143 of 1,231
- 3.64 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Dallas County
Duncanville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 DH610 · Duncanville Fire Department, TX 55 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,129
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Boothbay Volunteer
- FEMA-LIGHT $358K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Boothbay Volunteer Fire Department, ME (+ 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.
- Duncanville (this dept) 55
- High Clearwater, KS 55
- Near Boothbay Volunteer, ME 55
- Near Brunswick Fire De…, ME 55
- Near Clay City Fire Pr…, IL 55
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Duncanville, TX
- County
- Dallas County
- FDID
- DH610
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | EMW2013FO06595 | $357,660 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Duncanville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #143 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,129 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
Duncanville Fire Department is 1.4% of Dallas County roster mass
The county lists 40 departments totaling 3,996 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Boothbay Volunteer Fire Department, ME (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.