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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
53/100
Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency 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 C
24.8 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
99 personnel · 4 stations

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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
El Paso, TX
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.

▲ 191% above the state average
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).

Nationwide career peers near 99 personnel

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