Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderRopesville Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Ropesville, TX · Hockley County. Ropesville Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 12 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.
- 12
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Ropesville Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Texas average.
- 4th pct.
- national personnel size
- -65%
- 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.
Ropesville Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Ropesville, TX (Hockley County), with 1 station and 12 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,575 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #21,575 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #1,155 of 1,231
- 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 3 other listed departments in Hockley County
Ropesville Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
12 Top 96% higher than 4% 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 KR304 · Ropesville Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services, TX 12 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 12
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #21,575
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Assaria City
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Assaria City Fire Department, KS (+ 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.
- Ropesville Volunt… (this dept) 12
- High Cainhoy Rural Vol…, SC 12
- Near Assaria City, KS 12
- Near Bendena, KS 12
- Near Buncombe Volunteer, IL 12
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Ropesville, TX
- County
- Hockley County
- FDID
- KR304
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Ropesville Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #1,155 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,575 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 geometry
Hockley County HIFLD mix around Ropesville Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Hockley County: 4 departments, 87 personnel (4 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 50% of departments. County / state rollup.
8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 12 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Assaria City Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 12 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.