Department profile
OtherHouston River Volunteer Fire Department
Sulphur, LA · Calcasieu County. Houston River Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department and 20 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 20
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Houston River Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Louisiana average.
- 24th pct.
- national personnel size
- -23%
- vs. Louisiana average
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 River Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Sulphur, LA (Calcasieu County) and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,162 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #17,162 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #237 of 342
- 12 other listed departments in Calcasieu County
Houston River Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
20 Top 76% higher than 24% 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 10012 · Houston River Volunteer Fire Department, LA 20 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 20
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #17,162
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sneed Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sneed Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+ 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.
- Houston River Vol… (this dept) 20
- High Okolona Fire Stat…, AR 20
- Near Sneed Volunteer, OK 20
- Near Springer, OK 20
- Near Woodford Volunteer, OK 20
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Sulphur, LA
- County
- Calcasieu County
- FDID
- 10012
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Houston River Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #237 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,162 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster fringe
Houston River Volunteer Fire Department is 3.4% of Calcasieu County roster mass
The county lists 22 departments totaling 594 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 36% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Sneed Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 20 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.