Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Linden Volunteer Fire Department

Linden, TX · Cass County. Linden Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 10 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.

10
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Linden Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Texas average.

2nd pct.
national personnel size
-71%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
8/100
Linden 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
10 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
10 personnel · 1 station

Linden Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Linden, TX (Cass County), with 1 station and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,958 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #21,958 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #1,186 of 1,231
  • 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 8 other listed departments in Cass County

Linden Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

10 Top 98% higher than 2% 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 BY407 · Linden Volunteer Fire Department, TX 10 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 10
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #21,958
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Arcadia Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Arcadia Volunteer Fire Department, KS (+ 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
Linden, TX
FDID
BY407

Staffing vs the Texas average

How Linden Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #1,186 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,958 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 71% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster fringe

Linden Volunteer Fire Department is 5.8% of Cass County roster mass

The county lists 12 departments totaling 171 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 58% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 10 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Arcadia Volunteer Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 10 personnel

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