Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGarland Fire Department
Garland, TX · Dallas County. Garland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 251 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.
- 251
- Total personnel
- 9
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Garland Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +638%
- vs. Texas average
- 9
- stations
- $579,666
- 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.
Garland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Garland, TX (Dallas County), with 9 stations and 251 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #154 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $579,666.
- National personnel rank #154 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #15 of 1,231
- 3.59 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Dallas County
Garland Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
251 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 DH712 · Garland Fire Department, TX 251 personnel · 9 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 251
- STA-MULTI 9 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #154
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wilmington Manor…
- FEMA-MID $580K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Wilmington Manor Volunteer Fire Company, DE (+ 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.
- High Springfield, MA 253
- Garland (this dept) 251
- Near Wilmington Manor…, DE 251
- Near East Meadow, NY 250
- Low Kahului Fire Stat…, HI 249
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Garland, TX
- County
- Dallas County
- FDID
- DH712
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | EMW2011FO01335 | $579,666 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Garland Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #15 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #154 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 9
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Garland Fire Department is 6.3% 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.
3.59 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 251 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Wilmington Manor Volunteer Fire Company, DE (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 251 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.