Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderPonderosa Volunteer Fire Department
Houston, TX · Harris County. Ponderosa Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 71 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.
- 71
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Ponderosa Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +109%
- 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.
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.
Ponderosa Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Houston, TX (Harris County), with 3 stations and 71 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,865 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,865 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #92 of 1,231
- 4.23 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 60 other listed departments in Harris County
Ponderosa Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
71 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 KA545 · Ponderosa Volunteer Fire Department, TX 71 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 71
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,865
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Burtonsville Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department, MD (+ 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.
- Ponderosa Volunte… (this dept) 71
- High Ellis County Rura…, KS 71
- Near Burtonsville Volu…, MD 71
- Near Cherry Valley Fir…, IL 71
- Near Dallas City Rural…, IL 71
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Houston, TX
- County
- Harris County
- FDID
- KA545
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Ponderosa Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #92 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,865 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Ponderosa Volunteer Fire Department is 1.0% of Harris County roster mass
The county lists 78 departments totaling 7,018 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 55% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 71 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department, MD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 71 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.