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Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station

Houma, LA · Terrebonne County. Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station is a fire department, 5 stations and 64 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.

64
Total personnel
5
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+146%
vs. Louisiana average
5
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
13/100
Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station

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 F
12.8 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
64 personnel · 5 stations

Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station is a fire department serving Houma, LA (Terrebonne County), with 5 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,310 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,310 of 22,440
  • LA personnel rank #25 of 342
  • 7.81 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Terrebonne County

Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 55070 · Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station, LA 64 personnel · 5 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 64
  • STA-FEW 5 stations
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,310
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Suedberg Communit…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Suedberg Community Fire Company, PA (+ 0 personnel)

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every LA department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Houma, LA
FDID
55070

Staffing vs the Louisiana average

How Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #25 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,310 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 146% above the state average
Stations
5
State fire deaths/yr
96
LA departments
786

County roster geometry

Terrebonne County HIFLD mix around Houma Fire Department - South Houma Memorial Station

Terrebonne County: 21 departments, 532 personnel (6 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 67% of departments. County / state rollup.

7.81 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 64 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Suedberg Community Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide departments near 64 personnel

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