Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderWebster Fire Department
Houston, TX · Harris County. Webster Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 35 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.
- 35
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Webster Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the Texas average.
- Top 37%
- national personnel size
- +3%
- vs. Texas average
- 3
- 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.
Webster Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Houston, TX (Harris County), with 3 stations and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,203 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,203 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #347 of 1,231
- 8.57 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 60 other listed departments in Harris County
Webster Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
35 Top 37% higher than 63% 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 KA458 · Webster Fire Department, TX 35 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 35
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,203
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bethalto
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bethalto 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.
- Webster (this dept) 35
- High Buda Fire Protect…, IL 35
- Near Bethalto, IL 35
- Near Bismarck Fire Pro…, IL 35
- Near Brownstown Volunt…, IL 35
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Houston, TX
- County
- Harris County
- FDID
- KA458
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Webster Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #347 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,203 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Webster Fire Department is 0.5% of Harris County roster mass
The county lists 78 departments totaling 7,018 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 55% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 35 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bethalto Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 35 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.