Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderClay Fire Territory
South Bend, IN · St Joseph County. Clay Fire Territory is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 62 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.
- 62
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Clay Fire Territory pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Indiana average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- +170%
- vs. Indiana average
- 2
- 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.
Clay Fire Territory is a Career (Paid) department serving South Bend, IN (St Joseph County), with 2 stations and 62 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,426 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,426 of 22,440
- IN personnel rank #45 of 589
- 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in St Joseph County
Clay Fire Territory vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
62 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 71002 · Clay Fire Territory, IN 62 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 62
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,426
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bascom J T Fire /…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bascom J T Fire / Emergency Medical Services District, 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 IN department.
- Clay Fire Territo… (this dept) 62
- High Branchport-Keuka…, NY 62
- Near Bascom J T Fire /…, OH 62
- Near New Florence Volu…, PA 62
- Near Salem Fire and Em…, VA 62
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- South Bend, IN
- County
- St Joseph County
- FDID
- 71002
Staffing vs the Indiana average
How Clay Fire Territory's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #45 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,426 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 94
- IN departments
- 969
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy St Joseph County
County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 62 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bascom J T Fire / Emergency Medical Services District, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 62 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IN department.