Department profile
Career (Paid)Brookhaven Fire Department
Brookhaven, MS · Lincoln County. Brookhaven Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 35 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 35
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Brookhaven Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Mississippi average.
- Top 34%
- national personnel size
- +133%
- vs. Mississippi average
- 3
- 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.
Brookhaven Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Brookhaven, MS (Lincoln County), with 3 stations and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,630 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,630 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #74 of 316
- 8.57 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in Lincoln County
Brookhaven Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
35 Top 34% higher than 66% 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 43002 · Brookhaven Fire Department, MS 35 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 35
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #7,630
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fairport Harbor
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Fairport Harbor Fire Department, OH (+ 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 MS department.
- Brookhaven (this dept) 35
- High Grove City Area R…, PA 35
- Near Fairport Harbor, OH 35
- Near Schuyler Volunteer, NE 35
- Near Hutchinson, MN 35
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Brookhaven, MS
- County
- Lincoln County
- FDID
- 43002
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How Brookhaven Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #74 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,630 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County roster weight
Brookhaven Fire Department carries 39.8% of Lincoln County HIFLD personnel
Among 10 listed departments (88 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 20% of the county count. County / state rollup.
8.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 35 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Fairport Harbor Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 35 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.