Department profile
Career (Paid)Columbia Fire Department
Columbia, MS · Marion County. Columbia Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 19 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 19
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Columbia Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the Mississippi average.
- 20th pct.
- national personnel size
- +27%
- vs. Mississippi 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.
Columbia Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Columbia, MS (Marion County), with 2 stations and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,927 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #17,927 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #253 of 316
- 10.53 stations per 100 personnel
- 2 other listed departments in Marion County
Columbia Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
19 Top 80% higher than 20% 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 46002 · Columbia Fire Department, MS 19 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 19
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #17,927
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bradgate
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bradgate Fire Department, IA (+ 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.
- Columbia (this dept) 19
- High Marble, AR 19
- Near Bradgate, IA 19
- Near Tri-Valley Fire D…, OH 19
- Near Wendell Rural Fir…, ID 19
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Columbia, MS
- County
- Marion County
- FDID
- 46002
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How Columbia Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #253 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,927 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Marion County
County mix is mostly volunteer (2 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
10.53 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 19 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bradgate Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 19 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.