Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderTexarkana Fire Department
Texarkana, TX · Bowie County. Texarkana Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 80 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.
- 80
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Texarkana Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 7%
- national personnel size
- +135%
- vs. Texas average
- 5
- 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.
Texarkana Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Texarkana, TX (Bowie County), with 5 stations and 80 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,514 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,514 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #81 of 1,231
- 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 13 other listed departments in Bowie County
Texarkana Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
80 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 BA610 · Texarkana Fire Department, TX 80 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 80
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,514
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ford County Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Ford County Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KS (+ 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.
- Texarkana (this dept) 80
- High Rosemont, IL 80
- Near Ford County Fire…, KS 80
- Near Geary County Rural, KS 80
- Near Lewiston, ME 80
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Texarkana, TX
- County
- Bowie County
- FDID
- BA610
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Texarkana Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #81 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,514 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 Bowie County
County mix is mostly volunteer (11 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 80 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Ford County Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KS (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 80 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.