Department profile
VolunteerVal Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department
Del Rio, TX · Val Verde County. Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 5 stations and 118 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 118
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +247%
- 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.
Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Del Rio, TX (Val Verde County), with 5 stations and 118 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #704 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #704 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #45 of 1,231
- 4.24 stations per 100 personnel
- 2 other listed departments in Val Verde County
Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
118 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 WX501 · Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department, TX 118 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 118
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #704
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mount Prospect
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mount Prospect 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.
- Val Verde County… (this dept) 118
- High Durango Fire and…, CO 118
- Near Mount Prospect, IL 118
- Near Owings Mills Volu…, MD 118
- Near Sedona Fire Distr…, AZ 118
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Del Rio, TX
- County
- Val Verde County
- FDID
- WX501
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #45 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #704 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department carries 50.9% of Val Verde County HIFLD personnel
Among 5 listed departments (232 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 20% of the county count. County / state rollup.
4.24 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 118 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mount Prospect Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 118 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.