Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderLockhart Fire / Rescue
Lockhart, TX · Caldwell County. Lockhart Fire / Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 20 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.
- 20
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lockhart Fire / Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.
- 23rd pct.
- national personnel size
- -41%
- 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.
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.
Lockhart Fire / Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Lockhart, TX (Caldwell County), with 2 stations and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,270 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #17,270 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #838 of 1,231
- 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 6 other listed departments in Caldwell County
Lockhart Fire / Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
20 Top 77% higher than 23% 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 BR503 · Lockhart Fire / Rescue, TX 20 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 20
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #17,270
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Abilene
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Abilene Fire Department, KS (+ 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.
- Lockhart Fire / R… (this dept) 20
- High Anna, IL 20
- Near Abilene, KS 20
- Near Alliant Techsyste…, UT 20
- Near Andover, ME 20
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Lockhart, TX
- County
- Caldwell County
- FDID
- BR503
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Lockhart Fire / Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #838 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,270 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Caldwell County
County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 20 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Abilene Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 20 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.