Department profile
Career (Paid)Irving Fire Department
Irving, TX · Dallas County. Irving Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 11 stations and 298 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 298
- Total personnel
- 11
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Irving Fire Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +776%
- vs. Texas average
- 11
- stations
- $4,263,452
- 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.
Irving Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Irving, TX (Dallas County), with 11 stations and 298 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #121 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,263,452.
- National personnel rank #121 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #11 of 1,231
- 3.69 stations per 100 personnel
- 24 other listed departments in Dallas County
Irving Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
298 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 DH717 · Irving Fire Department, TX 298 personnel · 11 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 298
- STA-MULTI 11 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #121
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clayton County Fi…
- FEMA-MID $4.3M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Clayton County Fire and Emergency Services, GA (+ 2 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.
- High Port Washington, NY 301
- Near Clayton County Fi…, GA 300
- Near Waldorf Volunteer, MD 300
- Irving (this dept) 298
- Low Hialeah, FL 294
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Irving, TX
- County
- Dallas County
- FDID
- DH717
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-02037 | $3,575,616 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00467 | $687,835.58 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Irving Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #11 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #121 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 11
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Irving Fire Department is 7.5% of Dallas County roster mass
The county lists 40 departments totaling 3,996 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (11 stations / 298 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Clayton County Fire and Emergency Services, GA (+2 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 298 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.