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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
21/100
Mount Enterprise 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 D
15 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
15 personnel · 1 station

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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Mount Enterprise, TX
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.

▼ 56% below the state average
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).

Nationwide career peers near 15 personnel

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