Department profile
Career (Paid)Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services
El Paso, TX · El Paso County. Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 99 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 99
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +191%
- vs. Texas average
- 4
- stations
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.
Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services is a Career (Paid) department serving El Paso, TX (El Paso County), with 4 stations and 99 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #971 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #971 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #57 of 1,231
- 4.04 stations per 100 personnel
- 9 other listed departments in El Paso County
Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
99 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 AE003 · Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services, TX 99 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 99
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #971
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Glenview
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Glenview Fire Department, 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.
- Fort Bliss Fire a… (this dept) 99
- High Violetville Volun…, MD 99
- Near Glenview, IL 99
- Near Anniston, AL 99
- Near Watertown, CT 99
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- El Paso, TX
- County
- El Paso County
- FDID
- AE003
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #57 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #971 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
Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services is 8.6% of El Paso County roster mass
The county lists 14 departments totaling 1,155 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 43% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.04 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 99 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Glenview Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 99 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.