Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderItaly Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services
Italy, TX · Ellis County. Italy Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 24 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.
- 24
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Italy Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.
- 35th pct.
- national personnel size
- -29%
- vs. Texas average
- 1
- station
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.
Italy Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Italy, TX (Ellis County), with 1 station and 24 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #14,512 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #14,512 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #678 of 1,231
- 4.17 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Ellis County
Italy Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
24 Top 65% higher than 35% 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 GC409 · Italy Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, TX 24 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 24
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #14,512
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 134th Ces/Cef Ten…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 134th Ces/Cef Tennessee Air National Guard-Dod, TN (+ 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.
- Italy Volunteer F… (this dept) 24
- High Annawan-Alba Fire…, IL 24
- Near 134th Ces/Cef Ten…, TN 24
- Near Altoona, KS 24
- Near Andover Fire and…, KS 24
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Italy, TX
- County
- Ellis County
- FDID
- GC409
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Italy Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #678 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #14,512 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Italy Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is 5.9% of Ellis County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 408 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 70% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 24 roster).
Photo-finish peer: 134th Ces/Cef Tennessee Air National Guard-Dod, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 24 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.