Department profile
VolunteerBatesville Fire Department
Batesville, MS · Panola County. Batesville Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 29 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 29
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Batesville Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Mississippi average.
- Top 49%
- national personnel size
- +93%
- vs. Mississippi 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.
Batesville Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Batesville, MS (Panola County), with 3 stations and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,924 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #10,924 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #122 of 316
- 10.34 stations per 100 personnel
- 6 other listed departments in Panola County
Batesville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 54001 · Batesville Fire Department, MS 29 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 29
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-MID #10,924
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Burchard Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Burchard Volunteer Fire Department, NE (+ 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 MS department.
- Batesville (this dept) 29
- High Clinton Fire Prot…, WI 29
- Near Burchard Volunteer, NE 29
- Near Deerwalk Volunteer, WV 29
- Near Chester Volunteer, OH 29
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Batesville, MS
- County
- Panola County
- FDID
- 54001
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How Batesville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #122 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,924 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County roster geometry
Panola County HIFLD mix around Batesville Fire Department
Panola County: 11 departments, 119 personnel (5 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 55% of departments. County / state rollup.
10.34 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 29 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Burchard Volunteer Fire Department, NE (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.