In March of 1995 members of the Peoria Volunteer Fire Department in Hill County, Texas gathered to pour the slab for what was then going to become their “Station Two,” located on the Northern end of their fire district in the small but historic community of Woodbury. In 2002, as the needs of the local community changed, Peoria Station 2 was re-formed into the Woodbury Volunteer Fire Department.

Today, Woodbury VFD serves its namesake community as well as a portion of

surrounding, unincorporated Hill County. Staffed by a relatively small, close-knit group of volunteers in a community where everyone is a neighbor, Woodbury VFD is one of only a few community hubs that has not been lost to time. Bordered to the South by State Highway 22 and to the North by FM 934, Woodbury relies heavily on FM 309, which connects the two local thoroughfares. Having only the one 2-lane, paved road to serve as its arterial connection to the rest of the county, WVFD is in a unique position as it can easily be cut off from other surrounding agencies during inclement weather, significantly delaying vital mutual aid on which the department currently relies for everything beyond the most basic equipment.

Having just come under new leadership in early 2026, the Woodbury VFD is now humbly seeking funding outside its own community as equipment costs continue to exceed the socioeconomic capability of its generous local donors alone. With a unique response area that exposes the agency to everything from standard motor vehicle accidents and structure fires to agricultural machinery entrapments and devastating wildfires, the WVFD aims to enter into the coming years better equipped, better outfitted, and better trained to take on the evolving fire and rescue incidents that Hill County faces as it sees continued growth and expansion