← All vendorsCity spendingHouston Fire Department (HFD)
The city's published checkbook records $398,523,755 paid out under this department across 117,024 payment lines and 555 named vendors, FY2018–FY2026.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.
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
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 555)
$82,860,454
$43,686,481
$17,938,789
$15,390,975
$14,319,103
$13,106,172
$12,323,137
$10,700,407
$9,952,174
$8,694,806
$8,241,265
$7,075,883
$6,107,093
$5,805,997
$5,509,357
$5,261,859
$4,915,512
$4,267,504
$4,097,929
$4,066,642
$3,699,153
$3,646,270
$3,623,116
$2,887,911
$2,641,333
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 — $617,266,200 across FY2018–FY2026, 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 .