Department profile
VolunteerThorndale Volunteer Fire Department
Thorndale, TX · Milam County. Thorndale Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 56 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 56
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Thorndale Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Texas average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +65%
- 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.
Thorndale Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Thorndale, TX (Milam County), with 1 station and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,054 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,054 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #136 of 1,231
- 1.79 stations per 100 personnel
- 7 other listed departments in Milam County
Thorndale Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
56 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 RW408 · Thorndale Volunteer Fire Department, TX 56 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 56
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-UPPER #3,054
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Belleville
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Belleville Fire Department, 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.
- Thorndale Volunte… (this dept) 56
- High Homer Township Fi…, IL 56
- Near Belleville, IL 56
- Near Cary Fire Protect…, IL 56
- Near Elk County Rural…, KS 56
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Thorndale, TX
- County
- Milam County
- FDID
- RW408
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Thorndale Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #136 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,054 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
Thorndale Volunteer Fire Department carries 37.3% of Milam County HIFLD personnel
Among 8 listed departments (150 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 63% of the county count. County / state rollup.
1.79 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 56 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Belleville Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 56 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.