Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderHarper Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services
Harper, TX · Gillespie County. Harper Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 41 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.
- 41
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Harper Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Texas average.
- Top 25%
- national personnel size
- +21%
- vs. Texas average
- 1
- station
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.
Harper Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Harper, TX (Gillespie County), with 1 station and 41 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,707 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,707 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #238 of 1,231
- 2.44 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 5 other listed departments in Gillespie County
Harper Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
41 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 HC403 · Harper Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, TX 41 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 41
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,707
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Blue Ridge Paper…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Blue Ridge Paper Products Emergency Response, NC (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Harper Volunteer… (this dept) 41
- High Corinth Volunteer, ME 41
- Near Blue Ridge Paper…, NC 41
- Near Buxton, ME 41
- Near Byron Fire Depart…, IL 41
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Harper, TX
- County
- Gillespie County
- FDID
- HC403
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Harper Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #238 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,707 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Harper Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services carries 38.7% of Gillespie County HIFLD personnel
Among 6 listed departments (106 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 67% of the county count. County / state rollup.
2.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 41 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Blue Ridge Paper Products Emergency Response, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 41 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.