Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderLancaster Fire Department
Lancaster, TX · Dallas County. Lancaster Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 53 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.
- 53
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lancaster Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Texas average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +56%
- 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.
Lancaster Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Lancaster, TX (Dallas County), with 3 stations and 53 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,467 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,467 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #156 of 1,231
- 5.66 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Dallas County
Lancaster Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
53 Top 15% higher than 85% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more departments. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet DH619 · Lancaster Fire Department, TX 53 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 53
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Abbott North Chic…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Abbott North Chicago Fire Department, IL (+ 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.
- Lancaster (this dept) 53
- High Leawood, KS 53
- Near Abbott North Chic…, IL 53
- Near Acton Volunteer, ME 53
- Near Arkansas City Fir…, KS 53
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Lancaster, TX
- County
- Dallas County
- FDID
- DH619
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Lancaster Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #156 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,467 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
Lancaster Fire Department is 1.3% 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.
5.66 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 53 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Abbott North Chicago Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 53 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.