Department profile
Career (Paid)Wichita Falls Fire Department
Wichita Falls, TX · Wichita County. Wichita Falls Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 156 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 156
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Wichita Falls Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +359%
- vs. Texas average
- 8
- stations
- $1,755,433
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Wichita Falls Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Wichita Falls, TX (Wichita County), with 8 stations and 156 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #381 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,755,433.
- National personnel rank #381 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #32 of 1,231
- 5.13 stations per 100 personnel
- 9 other listed departments in Wichita County
Wichita Falls Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
156 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 XR707 · Wichita Falls Fire Department, TX 156 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 156
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #381
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Palm Beach Garden…
- FEMA-MID $1.8M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue, FL (+ 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.
- High Pine Hollow Volun…, OR 157
- Wichita Falls (this dept) 156
- Near Palm Beach Garden…, FL 156
- Near Washington Townsh…, NJ 156
- Near Meriwether County…, GA 156
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Wichita Falls, TX
- County
- Wichita County
- FDID
- XR707
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-04359 | $524,727.27 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-06485 | $421,136.36 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FR00099 | $809,569 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Wichita Falls Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #32 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #381 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster weight
Wichita Falls Fire Department carries 58.0% of Wichita County HIFLD personnel
Among 12 listed departments (269 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 50% of the county count. County / state rollup.
5.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 156 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Palm Beach Gardens Fire/Rescue, FL (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 156 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.