Department profile
Career (Paid)Mount Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department
Mount Enterprise, TX · Rusk County. Mount Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 15
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Mount Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Texas average.
- 9th pct.
- national personnel size
- -56%
- 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.
Mount Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Mount Enterprise, TX (Rusk County), with 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,343 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #20,343 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #1,068 of 1,231
- 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
- 14 other listed departments in Rusk County
Mount Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
15 Top 91% higher than 9% 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 HM157 · Mount Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department, TX 15 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 15
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #20,343
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alta Vista City
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Alta Vista City 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.
- Mount Enterprise… (this dept) 15
- High Barnard Rural, KS 15
- Near Alta Vista City, KS 15
- Near Argonia, KS 15
- Near Atwood, KS 15
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Mount Enterprise, TX
- County
- Rusk County
- FDID
- HM157
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Mount Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #1,068 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,343 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
Mount Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department is 6.4% of Rusk County roster mass
The county lists 15 departments totaling 233 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 33% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 15 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Alta Vista City Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 15 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.