Department profile
Career (Paid)Sugar Land Fire Department
Sugar Land, TX · Fort Bend County. Sugar Land Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 88 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 88
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Sugar Land Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +159%
- vs. Texas average
- 5
- stations
- $205,227
- 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.
Sugar Land Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Sugar Land, TX (Fort Bend County), with 5 stations and 88 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,229 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $205,227.
- National personnel rank #1,229 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #72 of 1,231
- 5.68 stations per 100 personnel
- 17 other listed departments in Fort Bend County
Sugar Land Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
88 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 GS413 · Sugar Land Fire Department, TX 88 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 88
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,229
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Woodstock Fire an…
- FEMA-LIGHT $205K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Woodstock Fire and Rescue District, IL (+ 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.
- Sugar Land (this dept) 88
- High Rio Tinto Energy…, WY 88
- Near Woodstock Fire an…, IL 88
- Near Banks County Fire…, GA 88
- Near City of Roswell, NM 88
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Sugar Land, TX
- County
- Fort Bend County
- FDID
- GS413
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-03778 | $205,227.27 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Sugar Land Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #72 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,229 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 Fort Bend County
County mix is mostly volunteer (11 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.68 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 88 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Woodstock Fire and Rescue District, IL (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 88 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.