Department profile
OtherBig Prairie Township Fire Department
White Cloud, MI · Newaygo County. Big Prairie Township Fire Department is a fire department and 17 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 17
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Big Prairie Township Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Michigan average.
- 15th pct.
- national personnel size
- -23%
- vs. Michigan average
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 Prairie Township Fire Department is a fire department serving White Cloud, MI (Newaygo County) and 17 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,002 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #19,002 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #828 of 1,008
- 6 other listed departments in Newaygo County
Big Prairie Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
17 Top 85% higher than 15% 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 06208 · Big Prairie Township Fire Department, MI 17 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 17
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #19,002
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Windermere Volunt…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Windermere Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every MI department.
- Big Prairie Towns… (this dept) 17
- High Ledger, NC 17
- Near Windermere Volunt…, AL 17
- Near East Providence, AL 17
- Near Jersey Rural, AR 17
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- White Cloud, MI
- County
- Newaygo County
- FDID
- 06208
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Big Prairie Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #828 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,002 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster geometry
Newaygo County HIFLD mix around Big Prairie Township Fire Department
Newaygo County: 7 departments, 142 personnel (4 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 14% of departments. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Windermere Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 17 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.