Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderRiver Oaks Volunteer Fire Department
Fort Worth, TX · Tarrant County. River Oaks Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
River Oaks Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Texas average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +26%
- vs. Texas average
- 1
- station
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.
River Oaks Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Fort Worth, TX (Tarrant County), with 1 station and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,372 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,372 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #222 of 1,231
- 2.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 35 other listed departments in Tarrant County
River Oaks Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 WB530 · River Oaks Volunteer Fire Department, TX 43 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,372
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Barnwell
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Barnwell Fire Department, SC (+ 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.
- River Oaks Volunt… (this dept) 43
- High Garden City, KS 43
- Near Barnwell, SC 43
- Near Coulterville Volu…, IL 43
- Near Fort Gordon Fire…, GA 43
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
- County
- Tarrant County
- FDID
- WB530
Staffing vs the Texas average
How River Oaks Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #222 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,372 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
River Oaks Volunteer Fire Department is 1.9% of Tarrant County roster mass
The county lists 48 departments totaling 2,322 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Barnwell Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.