Department profile
VolunteerBath Fire Department
Bath, SD · Brown County. Bath Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 7 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 7
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Bath Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the South Dakota average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -65%
- vs. South Dakota average
- 1
- station
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.
Bath Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Bath, SD (Brown County), with 1 station and 7 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,267 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,267 of 22,440
- SD personnel rank #256 of 257
- 14.29 stations per 100 personnel
- 10 other listed departments in Brown County
Bath Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
7 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 03002 · Bath Fire Department, SD 7 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 7
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #22,267
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wardville Rural V…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Wardville Rural Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+ 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 SD department.
- Bath (this dept) 7
- High Webber Township, MI 7
- Near Wardville Rural V…, OK 7
- Near Michigan Army Nat…, MI 7
- Near Camden County Div…, NJ 7
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bath, SD
- County
- Brown County
- FDID
- 03002
Staffing vs the South Dakota average
How Bath Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Dakota. In-state it ranks #256 of 257 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,267 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 17
- SD departments
- 365
County roster fringe
Bath Fire Department is 2.9% of Brown County roster mass
The county lists 12 departments totaling 239 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
14.29 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 7 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Wardville Rural Volunteer Fire Department, OK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 7 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SD department.