Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSundown Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Medical Services
Sundown, TX · Hockley County. Sundown Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 33 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.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Sundown Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Medical Services pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Texas average.
- Top 40%
- national personnel size
- -3%
- vs. Texas average
- 1
- station
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.
Sundown Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Sundown, TX (Hockley County), with 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,882 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,882 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #383 of 1,231
- 3.03 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 3 other listed departments in Hockley County
Sundown Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
33 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 KR406 · Sundown Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Medical Services, TX 33 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,882
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aviston Fire Prot…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Aviston Fire Protection District, 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.
- Sundown Volunteer… (this dept) 33
- High Breese Volunteer…, IL 33
- Near Aviston Fire Prot…, IL 33
- Near Bar Harbor Ambula…, ME 33
- Near Bradford Volunteer, ME 33
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Sundown, TX
- County
- Hockley County
- FDID
- KR406
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Sundown Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #383 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,882 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Sundown Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Medical Services carries 37.9% of Hockley County HIFLD personnel
Among 4 listed departments (87 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 100% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.03 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Aviston Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.