Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Hudson Volunteer Fire Department

Lufkin, TX · Angelina County. Hudson Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 27 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.

27
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Hudson Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.

46th pct.
national personnel size
-21%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
16/100
Hudson Volunteer Fire Department

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
13.5 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
27 personnel · 2 stations

Hudson Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lufkin, TX (Angelina County), with 2 stations and 27 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #12,097 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #12,097 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #555 of 1,231
  • 7.41 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 9 other listed departments in Angelina County

Hudson Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

27 Top 54% higher than 46% 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 AC406 · Hudson Volunteer Fire Department, TX 27 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 27
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #12,097
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 111th Fighter Win…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: 111th Fighter Wing Pennsylvania Air National Guard Fire Department-Dod, PA (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Lufkin, TX
FDID
AC406

Staffing vs the Texas average

How Hudson Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #555 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #12,097 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 21% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster geometry

Angelina County HIFLD mix around Hudson Volunteer Fire Department

Angelina County: 14 departments, 194 personnel (5 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 50% of departments. County / state rollup.

7.41 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 27 roster).

Photo-finish peer: 111th Fighter Wing Pennsylvania Air National Guard Fire Department-Dod, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 27 personnel

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