Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderBay City Fire and Rescue
Bay City, MI · Bay County. Bay City Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 61 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 61
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bay City Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- +177%
- vs. Michigan average
- 4
- stations
- $1,032,214
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Bay City Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Bay City, MI (Bay County), with 4 stations and 61 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,486 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,032,214.
- National personnel rank #2,486 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #44 of 1,008
- 6.56 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Bay County
Bay City Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
61 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 00903 · Bay City Fire and Rescue, MI 61 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 61
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,486
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Western Carteret…
- FEMA-MID $1.0M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Western Carteret Fire and Emergency Medical Services, NC (+ 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.
- Bay City Fire and… (this dept) 61
- High Bartlett Fire Pro…, IL 61
- Near Western Carteret…, NC 61
- Near Mount Olive Fire…, AL 61
- Near Barrington, IL 61
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Bay City, MI
- County
- Bay County
- FDID
- 00903
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | EMW2015FO05309 | $268,212 |
| 2004 | EMW-2004-FG-0711 | $764,002 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Bay City Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #44 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,486 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Bay County
County mix is mostly volunteer (13 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 61 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Western Carteret Fire and Emergency Medical Services, NC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 61 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.