Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Brandon Fire Department
Brandon, MS · Rankin County. City of Brandon Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 56 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.
- 56
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Brandon Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Mississippi average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +273%
- 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.
City of Brandon Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Brandon, MS (Rankin County), with 3 stations and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,979 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,979 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #24 of 316
- 5.36 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 21 other listed departments in Rankin County
City of Brandon Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
56 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 61001 · City of Brandon Fire Department, MS 56 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 56
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,979
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Reno Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Reno Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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 Brandon (this dept) 56
- High Okeechobee County…, FL 56
- Near Reno Volunteer, PA 56
- Near East Grand Forks, MN 56
- Near Huber Heights, OH 56
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Brandon, MS
- County
- Rankin County
- FDID
- 61001
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How City of Brandon Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #24 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,979 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Rankin County
County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 4 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.36 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 56 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Reno Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 56 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.