Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderComstock Township Fire and Rescue - Comstock East
Galesburg, MI · Kalamazoo County. Comstock Township Fire and Rescue - Comstock East is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 48 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.
- 48
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Comstock Township Fire and Rescue - Comstock East pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.
- Top 19%
- national personnel size
- +118%
- vs. Michigan 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.
Comstock Township Fire and Rescue - Comstock East is a Volunteer department serving Galesburg, MI (Kalamazoo County), with 3 stations and 48 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,249 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,249 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #76 of 1,008
- 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Kalamazoo County
Comstock Township Fire and Rescue - Comstock East 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 03904 · Comstock Township Fire and Rescue - Comstock East, MI 48 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 48
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,249
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Morrison Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Morrison Volunteer Fire Department, MO (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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 MI department.
- Comstock Township… (this dept) 48
- High Piney Chapel, AL 48
- Near Morrison Volunteer, MO 48
- Near Lake Mishnock Vol…, RI 48
- Near Shenandoah Farms…, VA 48
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Galesburg, MI
- County
- Kalamazoo County
- FDID
- 03904
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Comstock Township Fire and Rescue - Comstock East's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #76 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,249 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster fringe
Comstock Township Fire and Rescue - Comstock East is 5.8% of Kalamazoo County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 832 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 35% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 48 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Morrison Volunteer Fire Department, MO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 48 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.