Department profile
Career (Paid)City of Bay Saint Louis Fire Department
Bay Saint Louis, MS · Hancock County. City of Bay Saint Louis Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 48 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 48
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Bay Saint Louis Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Mississippi average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- +220%
- 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.
City of Bay Saint Louis Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Bay Saint Louis, MS (Hancock County), with 1 station and 48 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,244 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,244 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #36 of 316
- 2.08 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in Hancock County
City of Bay Saint Louis Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
48 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 23001 · City of Bay Saint Louis Fire Department, MS 48 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 48
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,244
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Turner Volunteer…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Turner Volunteer Fire Company, MT (+ 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.
- City of Bay Saint… (this dept) 48
- High Cranford, NJ 48
- Near Turner Volunteer…, MT 48
- Near Copenhagen, NY 48
- Near Mills Volunteer, WY 48
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Bay Saint Louis, MS
- County
- Hancock County
- FDID
- 23001
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How City of Bay Saint Louis Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #36 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,244 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Hancock County
County mix is mostly volunteer (5 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.08 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 48 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Turner Volunteer Fire Company, MT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 48 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.