Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

San Angelo Fire Department

San Angelo, TX · Tom Green County. San Angelo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 4 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.

4
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

San Angelo Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Texas average.

0th pct.
national personnel size
-88%
vs. Texas average
1
station
$1,194,357
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
47/100
San Angelo Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity F
4 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment A
$298,589 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
4 personnel · 1 station

San Angelo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving San Angelo, TX (Tom Green County), with 1 station and 4 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,405 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,194,357.

  • National personnel rank #22,405 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #1,227 of 1,231
  • 25.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 11 other listed departments in Tom Green County

San Angelo Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

4 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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 09078 · San Angelo Fire Department, TX 4 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 4
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #22,405
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Awendaw Fire Dist…
  • FEMA-MID $1.2M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Awendaw Fire District, SC (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
San Angelo, TX
FDID
09078

FEMA Grant History

$1.2M
Cumulative funding (FY2017)
2
Awards
Year Award Amount
2017 EMW-2017-FH-00227 $989,282.56
2017 EMW-2017-FO-03800 $205,074

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Texas average

How San Angelo Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #1,227 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,405 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 88% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster fringe

San Angelo Fire Department is 0.9% of Tom Green County roster mass

The county lists 12 departments totaling 427 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 67% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

25.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 4 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Awendaw Fire District, SC (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 4 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.