Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderStephenville Fire Department
Stephenville, TX · Erath County. Stephenville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 46 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.
- 46
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Stephenville Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Texas average.
- Top 21%
- national personnel size
- +35%
- vs. Texas average
- 2
- stations
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.
Stephenville Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Stephenville, TX (Erath County), with 2 stations and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,681 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,681 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #197 of 1,231
- 4.35 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 9 other listed departments in Erath County
Stephenville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 GD504 · Stephenville Fire Department, TX 46 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 46
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,681
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Anderson County F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Anderson County Fire Protection - Wren, 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.
- Stephenville (this dept) 46
- High Frankfort Fire Pr…, IL 46
- Near Anderson County F…, SC 46
- Near Berkeley, IL 46
- Near Dolton, IL 46
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Stephenville, TX
- County
- Erath County
- FDID
- GD504
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Stephenville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #197 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,681 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Stephenville Fire Department carries 26.0% of Erath County HIFLD personnel
Among 11 listed departments (177 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 45% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 46 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Anderson County Fire Protection - Wren, SC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 46 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.