Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHouston Fire Department
Houston, TX · Harris County. Houston Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 88 stations and 3,815 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.
- 3,815
- Total personnel
- 88
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Houston Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +11121%
- vs. Texas average
- 88
- stations
- $20,598,767
- 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.
Houston Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Houston, TX (Harris County), with 88 stations and 3,815 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $20,598,767.
- National personnel rank #2 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #1 of 1,231
- 2.31 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 60 other listed departments in Harris County
Houston Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
3,815 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 KA926 · Houston Fire Department, TX 3,815 personnel · 88 stations
PERS-METRO · STA-SYSTEM · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-METRO 3,815
- STA-SYSTEM 88 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #2
- ABOVE-PEER over Frederick County…
- FEMA-HEAVY $20.6M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association, MD ( -1,008 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.
- Houston (this dept) 3,815
- Near Frederick County…, MD 2,807
- Near California Depart…, CA 2,030
- Near Prince Georges Co…, MD 1,981
- Low San Francisco, CA 1,835
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Houston, TX
- County
- Harris County
- FDID
- KA926
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-01814 | $1,876,239.13 |
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-00423 | $475,119.3 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-00520 | $2,050,678.26 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FP-00041 | $173,328.57 |
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-14369 | $811,706.09 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-05700 | $1,966,790.32 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-03569 | $2,276,700.18 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FO06715 | $751,278 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-05995 | $673,137 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FO05153 | $2,953,820 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Houston Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #1 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 88
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Houston Fire Department carries 54.4% of Harris County HIFLD personnel
Among 78 listed departments (7,018 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 47% of the county count. County / state rollup.
2.31 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (88 stations / 3,815 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association, MD (-1,008 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 3,815 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.