Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSalado Volunteer Fire Department
Salado, TX · Bell County. Salado Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 27 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.
- 27
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Salado Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Texas average.
- 45th pct.
- national personnel size
- -21%
- vs. Texas average
- 1
- station
- $222,143
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Salado Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Salado, TX (Bell County), with 1 station and 27 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #12,273 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $222,143.
- National personnel rank #12,273 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #562 of 1,231
- 3.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Bell County
Salado Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
27 Top 55% higher than 45% 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 AV311 · Salado Volunteer Fire Department, TX 27 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 27
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #12,273
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 111th Fighter Win…
- FEMA-LIGHT $222K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 111th Fighter Wing Pennsylvania Air National Guard Fire Department-Dod, PA (+ 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.
- Salado Volunteer (this dept) 27
- High Ava Volunteer, IL 27
- Near 111th Fighter Win…, PA 27
- Near 131st Fighter Win…, MO 27
- Near AK Steel Plant Pr…, PA 27
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Salado, TX
- County
- Bell County
- FDID
- AV311
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-08954 | $222,142.85 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Salado Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #562 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #12,273 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
Salado Volunteer Fire Department is 4.3% of Bell County roster mass
The county lists 20 departments totaling 634 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 95% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 27 roster).
Photo-finish peer: 111th Fighter Wing Pennsylvania Air National Guard Fire Department-Dod, PA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 27 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.