Department profile
Career (Paid)Port Arthur Fire Department - Central Station
Port Arthur, TX · Jefferson County. Port Arthur Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 107 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 107
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Port Arthur Fire Department - Central Station pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +215%
- 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.
Port Arthur Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Port Arthur, TX (Jefferson County), with 8 stations and 107 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #815 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #815 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #52 of 1,231
- 7.48 stations per 100 personnel
- 9 other listed departments in Jefferson County
Port Arthur Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
107 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 NH715 · Port Arthur Fire Department - Central Station, TX 107 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 107
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #815
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Morehead
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Morehead Fire Department, KY (+ 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.
- Port Arthur Fire… (this dept) 107
- High Buckeye Valley Fi…, AZ 107
- Near Morehead, KY 107
- Near Westbrook Fire an…, ME 107
- Near Greenacres Depart…, FL 107
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Port Arthur, TX
- County
- Jefferson County
- FDID
- NH715
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Port Arthur Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #52 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #815 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Jefferson County
County mix is mostly volunteer (7 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
7.48 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 107 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Morehead Fire Department, KY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 107 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.