Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department

Kingsbury, TX · Guadalupe County. Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 29 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.

29
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Texas average.

Top 49%
national personnel size
-15%
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
19/100
Kingsbury 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
14.5 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
29 personnel · 2 stations

Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Kingsbury, TX (Guadalupe County), with 2 stations and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,088 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,088 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #501 of 1,231
  • 6.90 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Guadalupe County

Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 HS408 · Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department, TX 29 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 29
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #11,088
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Astoria Fire Prot…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Astoria Fire Protection District, IL (+ 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
Kingsbury, TX
FDID
HS408

Staffing vs the Texas average

How Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #501 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,088 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 15% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster fringe

Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department is 8.7% of Guadalupe County roster mass

The county lists 14 departments totaling 333 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 64% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.90 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 29 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Astoria Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel

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