Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCanton Fire Department
Canton, MS · Madison County. Canton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 34 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.
- 34
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Canton Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Mississippi average.
- Top 37%
- national personnel size
- +127%
- vs. Mississippi average
- 4
- stations
- $762,965
- 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.
Canton Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Canton, MS (Madison County), with 4 stations and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,280 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $762,965.
- National personnel rank #8,280 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #82 of 316
- 11.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 4 other listed departments in Madison County
Canton Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
34 Top 37% higher than 63% 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 45001 · Canton Fire Department, MS 34 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 34
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,280
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hopkinton-Fort Ja…
- FEMA-MID $763K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hopkinton-Fort Jackson Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- Canton (this dept) 34
- High Pine Township Eng…, PA 34
- Near Hopkinton-Fort Ja…, NY 34
- Near Saint John, IN 34
- Near Edinburg Voluntee…, NY 34
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Canton, MS
- County
- Madison County
- FDID
- 45001
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FH-00536 | $762,964.73 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How Canton Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #82 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,280 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Madison County
County mix is mostly volunteer (3 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
11.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 34 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hopkinton-Fort Jackson Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 34 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.