Department profile
Career (Paid)Kilgore Fire Department - Central Station
Kilgore, TX · Gregg County. Kilgore Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 31 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 31
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Kilgore Fire Department - Central Station pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Texas average.
- Top 43%
- national personnel size
- -9%
- vs. Texas average
- 3
- 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.
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.
Kilgore Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Kilgore, TX (Gregg County), with 3 stations and 31 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,608 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #9,608 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #424 of 1,231
- 9.68 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in Gregg County
Kilgore Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
31 Top 43% higher than 57% 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 HP506 · Kilgore Fire Department - Central Station, TX 31 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 31
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #9,608
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Andrews City
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Andrews City Fire Department, SC (+ 0 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.
- Kilgore Fire Depa… (this dept) 31
- High Brooklin Volunteer, ME 31
- Near Andrews City, SC 31
- Near Bagdad Fire Prote…, KY 31
- Near Brimfield Communi…, IL 31
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Kilgore, TX
- County
- Gregg County
- FDID
- HP506
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Kilgore Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #424 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,608 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Kilgore Fire Department - Central Station is 9.8% of Gregg County roster mass
The county lists 10 departments totaling 315 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
9.68 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 31 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Andrews City Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 31 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.