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
PlainFireData Composite Score
90/100
City of Bay Saint Louis 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 A
48 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
48 personnel · 1 station

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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Bay Saint Louis, MS
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.

▲ 220% above the state average
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).

Nationwide career peers near 48 personnel

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