Department profile
Career (Paid)Rio Grande City Fire Department
Rio Grande City, TX · Starr County. Rio Grande City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 18 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 18
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Rio Grande City Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.
- 16th pct.
- national personnel size
- -47%
- 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.
Rio Grande City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Rio Grande City, TX (Starr County), with 2 stations and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,801 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #18,801 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #953 of 1,231
- 11.11 stations per 100 personnel
- 6 other listed departments in Starr County
Rio Grande City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
18 Top 84% higher than 16% 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 VV502 · Rio Grande City Fire Department, TX 18 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 18
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #18,801
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Baileyville Volun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Baileyville Volunteer Fire Department, 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.
- Rio Grande City (this dept) 18
- High Carbon Cliff Volu…, IL 18
- Near Baileyville Volun…, ME 18
- Near Bradley Volunteer, ME 18
- Near Camp Point Fire P…, IL 18
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Rio Grande City, TX
- County
- Starr County
- FDID
- VV502
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Rio Grande City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #953 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,801 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Starr County
County mix is mostly volunteer (4 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
11.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 18 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Baileyville Volunteer Fire Department, ME (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 18 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.