Department profile

Volunteer

San Juan Fire Department

San Juan, TX · Hidalgo County. San Juan Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

45
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

San Juan Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Texas average.

Top 22%
national personnel size
+32%
vs. Texas average
2
stations
$836,984
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
54/100
San Juan 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 C
22.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment B
$18,600 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
45 personnel · 2 stations

San Juan Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving San Juan, TX (Hidalgo County), with 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,993 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $836,984.

  • National personnel rank #4,993 of 22,440
  • TX personnel rank #208 of 1,231
  • 4.44 stations per 100 personnel
  • 20 other listed departments in Hidalgo County

San Juan Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 KN513 · San Juan Fire Department, TX 45 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #4,993
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beach Park
  • FEMA-MID $837K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
San Juan, TX
FDID
KN513

FEMA Grant History

$837K
Cumulative funding (FY2008–2017)
3
Awards
Year Award Amount
2017 EMW-2017-FH-00295 $340,344.46
2009 EMW2008FF00913 $-28,679
2008 EMW-2008-FF-0091 $525,319

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

Staffing vs the Texas average

How San Juan Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #208 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,993 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 32% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
241
TX departments
1,879

County roster fringe

San Juan Fire Department is 6.0% of Hidalgo County roster mass

The county lists 23 departments totaling 750 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 13% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

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