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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
10/100
Brookhaven Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity F
11.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
35 personnel · 3 stations

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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Brookhaven, MS
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.

▲ 133% above the state average
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).

Nationwide career peers near 35 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.