Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHarker Heights Fire Department Emergency Medical Services
Harker Heights, TX · Bell County. Harker Heights Fire Department Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 35 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.
- 35
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Harker Heights Fire Department Emergency Medical Services pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Texas average.
- Top 35%
- national personnel size
- +3%
- vs. Texas average
- 2
- 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.
Harker Heights Fire Department Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Harker Heights, TX (Bell County), with 2 stations and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,822 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,822 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #331 of 1,231
- 5.71 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Bell County
Harker Heights Fire Department Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
35 Top 35% higher than 65% 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 AV604 · Harker Heights Fire Department Emergency Medical Services, TX 35 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 35
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,822
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bethalto
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bethalto 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.
- Harker Heights Fi… (this dept) 35
- High Buda Fire Protect…, IL 35
- Near Bethalto, IL 35
- Near Bismarck Fire Pro…, IL 35
- Near Brownstown Volunt…, IL 35
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Harker Heights, TX
- County
- Bell County
- FDID
- AV604
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Harker Heights Fire Department Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #331 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,822 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
Harker Heights Fire Department Emergency Medical Services is 5.5% of Bell County roster mass
The county lists 20 departments totaling 634 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 95% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 35 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bethalto Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 35 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.