Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderPort Lavaca Fire Department
Port Lavaca, TX · Calhoun County. Port Lavaca Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 28 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.
- 28
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Port Lavaca Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.
- 48th pct.
- national personnel size
- -18%
- vs. Texas average
- 2
- 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 Lavaca Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Port Lavaca, TX (Calhoun County), with 2 stations and 28 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,718 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #11,718 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #534 of 1,231
- 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 5 other listed departments in Calhoun County
Port Lavaca Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
28 Top 52% higher than 48% 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 BS602 · Port Lavaca Fire Department, TX 28 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 28
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #11,718
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 182nd Air Wing Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 182nd Air Wing Fire Department - Illinois Air National Guard-Dod, IL (+ 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 Lavaca (this dept) 28
- High Ashton Fire Prote…, IL 28
- Near 182nd Air Wing Fi…, IL 28
- Near Altamont-Mount Pl…, KS 28
- Near Ashkum Township F…, IL 28
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Port Lavaca, TX
- County
- Calhoun County
- FDID
- BS602
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Port Lavaca Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #534 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,718 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Port Lavaca Fire Department carries 25.9% of Calhoun County HIFLD personnel
Among 7 listed departments (108 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 57% of the county count. County / state rollup.
7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 28 roster).
Photo-finish peer: 182nd Air Wing Fire Department - Illinois Air National Guard-Dod, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 28 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.