Department profile
VolunteerOak Ridge Volunteer Fire Department
Gainesville, TX · Cooke County. Oak Ridge Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 26 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 26
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Oak Ridge Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.
- 43rd pct.
- national personnel size
- -24%
- 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.
Oak Ridge Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Gainesville, TX (Cooke County), with 1 station and 26 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #12,782 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #12,782 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #584 of 1,231
- 3.85 stations per 100 personnel
- 10 other listed departments in Cooke County
Oak Ridge Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
26 Top 57% higher than 43% 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 CW211 · Oak Ridge Volunteer Fire Department, TX 26 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 26
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-MID #12,782
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 161st Air Nationa…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 161st Air National Guard-Dod, AZ (+ 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.
- Oak Ridge Volunte… (this dept) 26
- High Armington Communi…, IL 26
- Near 161st Air Nationa…, AZ 26
- Near Alna Volunteer, ME 26
- Near Arcola Fire Prote…, IL 26
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Gainesville, TX
- County
- Cooke County
- FDID
- CW211
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Oak Ridge Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #584 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #12,782 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 geometry
Cooke County HIFLD mix around Oak Ridge Volunteer Fire Department
Cooke County: 13 departments, 227 personnel (5 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 8% of departments. County / state rollup.
3.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 26 roster).
Photo-finish peer: 161st Air National Guard-Dod, AZ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 26 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.