← All vendorsCity spendingHouston Fire Department (HFD)
The city's published checkbook records $421,651,321 paid out under this department across 124,845 payment lines and 566 named vendors, FY2018–FY2027.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.
By fiscal year
FY2018$36,787,276
FY2019$39,167,333
FY2020$40,848,414
FY2021$36,169,965
FY2022$43,339,487
FY2023$30,782,300
FY2024$38,815,195
FY2025$70,430,244
FY2026$62,183,541
FY2027$23,127,566
The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.
Largest vendors (25 of 566)
$82,974,423
$44,644,966
$19,120,091
$15,722,566
$14,626,822
$13,919,049
$12,330,061
$10,864,163
$10,375,769
$9,952,174
$9,217,483
$8,241,265
$7,315,245
$6,922,318
$5,890,795
$5,805,997
$5,014,870
$4,915,512
$4,433,707
$4,315,831
$4,097,929
$4,066,642
$3,646,270
$3,623,116
$3,248,765
What this does and doesn't show
- These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
- Some payments name no company: the city files them under "GENERAL ONE-TIME VENDOR" or a bare asterisk — $683,428,414 across FY2018–FY2027, about 1.2% of all payments. Much of that is properly private, like legal settlements and housing assistance paid to individuals. Those payments aren't listed as vendors here because there's no vendor to list.
- A department total here is what moved through that department's books, not its budget. Funds it administers on someone else's behalf are included.
From the City of Houston's .