Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Crystal Springs Volunteer Fire Department

Crystal Springs, MS · Copiah County. Crystal Springs Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 45 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.

45
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Crystal Springs Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Mississippi average.

Top 21%
national personnel size
+200%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
47/100
Crystal Springs Volunteer 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 C
22.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
45 personnel · 2 stations

Crystal Springs Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Crystal Springs, MS (Copiah County), with 2 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,785 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,785 of 22,440
  • MS personnel rank #44 of 316
  • 4.44 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Copiah County

Crystal Springs Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

45 Top 21% higher than 79% 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 15001 · Crystal Springs Volunteer Fire Department, MS 45 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 45
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,785
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aurora
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Aurora Fire Department, IN (+ 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 MS department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Crystal Springs, MS
FDID
15001

Staffing vs the Mississippi average

How Crystal Springs Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #44 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,785 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 200% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
63
MS departments
751

County roster geometry

Copiah County HIFLD mix around Crystal Springs Volunteer Fire Department

Copiah County: 13 departments, 206 personnel (6 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 38% of departments. County / state rollup.

4.44 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 45 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Aurora Fire Department, IN (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nearby Departments

Barlow Volunteer Fire Department
Hazlehurst · volunteer
Bethel Volunteer Fire Department
Hazlehurst · other
Crystal Springs Fire Department
Crystal Springs · other
Dentville Volunteer Fire Department
Hazlehurst · volunteer
Hazlehurst City Fire Department
Hazlehurst · other
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 45 personnel

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