Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOdessa Fire Department - Central Station
Odessa, TX · Ector County. Odessa Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 162 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.
- 162
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Odessa Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +376%
- vs. Texas average
- 8
- 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.
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.
Odessa Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Odessa, TX (Ector County), with 8 stations and 162 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #351 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #351 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #29 of 1,231
- 4.94 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 5 other listed departments in Ector County
Odessa Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
162 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 DZ704 · Odessa Fire Department - Central Station, TX 162 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 162
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #351
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ South Portland Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: South Portland Fire Department - Central, ME (+ 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.
- Odessa Fire Depar… (this dept) 162
- High Framingham, MA 162
- Near South Portland Fi…, ME 162
- Near Boca Raton Fire a…, FL 162
- Low Jones County, GA 161
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Odessa, TX
- County
- Ector County
- FDID
- DZ704
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Odessa Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #29 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #351 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Odessa Fire Department - Central Station carries 100.0% of Ector County HIFLD personnel
Among 6 listed departments (162 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 0% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 162 roster).
Photo-finish peer: South Portland Fire Department - Central, ME (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 162 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.