Department profile
VolunteerBig Level Volunteer Fire Department
Perkinston, MS · Stone County. Big Level Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 12 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 12
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Big Level Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Mississippi average.
- 5th pct.
- national personnel size
- -20%
- vs. Mississippi 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.
Big Level Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Perkinston, MS (Stone County), with 1 station and 12 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,289 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #21,289 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #302 of 316
- 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
- 5 other listed departments in Stone County
Big Level Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
12 Top 95% higher than 5% 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 66001 · Big Level Volunteer Fire Department, MS 12 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 12
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #21,289
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Seaforth
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Seaforth Fire Department, MN (+ 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.
- Big Level Volunte… (this dept) 12
- High Lobelville Volunt…, TN 12
- Near Seaforth, MN 12
- Near Melrose, IA 12
- Near Martin Creek Volu…, AR 12
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Perkinston, MS
- County
- Stone County
- FDID
- 66001
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How Big Level Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #302 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,289 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County roster fringe
Big Level Volunteer Fire Department is 9.3% of Stone County roster mass
The county lists 7 departments totaling 129 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 12 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Seaforth Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 12 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.