Department profile
Career (Paid)Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop
Baton Rouge, LA · East Baton Rouge County. Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop is a Career (Paid) department, 19 stations and 575 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 575
- Total personnel
- 19
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Louisiana average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +2112%
- vs. Louisiana average
- 19
- 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.
Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop is a Career (Paid) department serving Baton Rouge, LA (East Baton Rouge County), with 19 stations and 575 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #45 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #45 of 22,440
- LA personnel rank #1 of 342
- 3.30 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in East Baton Rouge County
Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
575 Top 1% higher than 99%+ 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 17005 · Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop, LA 575 personnel · 19 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 575
- STA-MULTI 19 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #45
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sacramento City
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sacramento City Fire Department, CA ( -3 personnel)
Career/paid 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 LA department.
- Baton Rouge Fire… (this dept) 575
- Near Sacramento City, CA 572
- Near Lexington-Fayette…, KY 558
- Near Ventura County Fi…, CA 554
- Low Raleigh, NC 549
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA
- County
- East Baton Rouge County
- FDID
- 17005
Staffing vs the Louisiana average
How Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #1 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #45 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 19
- State fire deaths/yr
- 96
- LA departments
- 786
County roster weight
Baton Rouge Fire Department - Mechanic Shop carries 57.0% of East Baton Rouge County HIFLD personnel
Among 20 listed departments (1,009 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 25% of the county count. County / state rollup.
3.30 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (19 stations / 575 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sacramento City Fire Department, CA (-3 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 575 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every LA department.