Department profile
Career (Paid)Sherman Fire Department
Sherman, TX · Grayson County. Sherman Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 73 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 73
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Sherman Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +115%
- vs. Texas average
- 5
- stations
- $1,156,697
- 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.
Sherman Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Sherman, TX (Grayson County), with 5 stations and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,775 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,156,697.
- National personnel rank #1,775 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #89 of 1,231
- 6.85 stations per 100 personnel
- 20 other listed departments in Grayson County
Sherman Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 HN608 · Sherman Fire Department, TX 73 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 73
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,775
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fort Wainwright F…
- FEMA-MID $1.2M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Fort Wainwright Fire and Emergency Services, AK (+ 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.
- Sherman (this dept) 73
- High Swepsonville Volu…, NC 73
- Near Fort Wainwright F…, AK 73
- Near Knoxville Communi…, IL 73
- Near Lincoln Fire Prot…, IL 73
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Sherman, TX
- County
- Grayson County
- FDID
- HN608
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-04402 | $413,818.18 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00330 | $742,878.6 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Sherman Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #89 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,775 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Grayson County
County mix is mostly volunteer (15 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 73 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Fort Wainwright Fire and Emergency Services, AK (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 73 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.