Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

New Caney Fire Department Central

New Caney, TX · Montgomery County. New Caney Fire Department Central is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 36 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.

36
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

New Caney Fire Department Central pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Texas average.

Top 33%
national personnel size
+6%
vs. Texas average
3
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
10/100
New Caney Fire Department Central

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
12 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
36 personnel · 3 stations

New Caney Fire Department Central is a Volunteer department serving New Caney, TX (Montgomery County), with 3 stations and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,398 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,398 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #309 of 1,231
  • 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 19 other listed departments in Montgomery County

New Caney Fire Department Central vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 SA410 · New Caney Fire Department Central, TX 36 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #7,398
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bingham Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bingham 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
New Caney, TX
FDID
SA410

Staffing vs the Texas average

How New Caney Fire Department Central's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #309 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,398 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 6% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster fringe

New Caney Fire Department Central is 4.8% of Montgomery County roster mass

The county lists 27 departments totaling 756 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 48% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bingham Volunteer Fire Department, ME (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel

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