Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderLittle Elm Fire Department
Little Elm, TX · Denton County. Little Elm Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 55 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.
- 55
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Little Elm Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Texas average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +62%
- 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.
Little Elm Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Little Elm, TX (Denton County), with 1 station and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,183 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,183 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #144 of 1,231
- 1.82 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 21 other listed departments in Denton County
Little Elm Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 DR311 · Little Elm Fire Department, TX 55 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,183
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Boothbay Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Boothbay Volunteer Fire Department, ME (+ 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.
- Little Elm (this dept) 55
- High Clearwater, KS 55
- Near Boothbay Volunteer, ME 55
- Near Brunswick Fire De…, ME 55
- Near Clay City Fire Pr…, IL 55
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Little Elm, TX
- County
- Denton County
- FDID
- DR311
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Little Elm Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #144 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,183 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
Little Elm Fire Department is 6.7% of Denton County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 818 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 78% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Boothbay Volunteer Fire Department, ME (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.