Department profile
Career (Paid)Battle Creek Fire Department
Battle Creek, MI · Calhoun County. Battle Creek Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 103 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 103
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Battle Creek Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +368%
- vs. Michigan 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.
Battle Creek Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Battle Creek, MI (Calhoun County), with 1 station and 103 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #876 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #876 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #10 of 1,008
- 0.97 stations per 100 personnel
- 19 other listed departments in Calhoun County
Battle Creek Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
103 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 01303 · Battle Creek Fire Department, MI 103 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 103
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #876
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Eagle Fire Protec…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Eagle Fire Protection District, ID (+ 0 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 MI department.
- Battle Creek (this dept) 103
- High Central Lyon Coun…, NV 103
- Near Eagle Fire Protec…, ID 103
- Near Oak Lawn, IL 103
- Near Westerly, RI 103
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Battle Creek, MI
- County
- Calhoun County
- FDID
- 01303
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Battle Creek Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #10 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #876 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Calhoun County
County mix is mostly volunteer (13 volunteer / 5 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
0.97 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 103 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Eagle Fire Protection District, ID (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 103 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.