Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

North Richland Hills Fire Department

North Richland Hills, TX · Tarrant County. North Richland Hills Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 84 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.

84
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

North Richland Hills Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.

Top 6%
national personnel size
+147%
vs. Texas average
4
stations
$613,586
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
42/100
North Richland Hills 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 C
21 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
84 personnel · 4 stations

North Richland Hills Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving North Richland Hills, TX (Tarrant County), with 4 stations and 84 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,345 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $613,586.

  • National personnel rank #1,345 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #77 of 1,231
  • 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 35 other listed departments in Tarrant County

North Richland Hills Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

84 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 WB625 · North Richland Hills Fire Department, TX 84 personnel · 4 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 84
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,345
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Graham County Rur…
  • FEMA-MID $614K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Graham County Rural 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
North Richland Hills, TX
FDID
WB625

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2023)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2023 EMW-2023-FG-01309 $613,586.36

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Texas average

How North Richland Hills Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #77 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,345 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 147% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster fringe

North Richland Hills Fire Department is 3.6% of Tarrant County roster mass

The county lists 48 departments totaling 2,322 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 84 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Graham County Rural Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 84 personnel

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