Department profile
Career (Paid)Opelousas Fire Department - Central Station
Opelousas, LA · St Landry County. Opelousas Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 52 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 52
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Opelousas Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.
- Top 16%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- vs. Louisiana average
- 4
- 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.
Opelousas Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Opelousas, LA (St Landry County), with 4 stations and 52 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,630 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,630 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #42 of 342
- 7.69 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in St Landry County
Opelousas Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
52 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 49035 · Opelousas Fire Department - Central Station, LA 52 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 52
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,630
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Canoga Volunteer…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Canoga Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated, NY (+ 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 LA department.
- Opelousas Fire De… (this dept) 52
- High New Hanover Fire…, PA 52
- Near Canoga Volunteer…, NY 52
- Near Pulteney Volunteer, NY 52
- Near Bethel, SC 52
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Opelousas, LA
- County
- St Landry County
- FDID
- 49035
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Opelousas Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #42 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,630 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy St Landry County
County mix is mostly volunteer (6 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
7.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 52 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Canoga Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 52 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.