Department profile

Career (Paid)

Escanaba Public Safety

Escanaba, MI · Delta County. Escanaba Public Safety is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

36
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Escanaba Public Safety pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Michigan average.

Top 32%
national personnel size
+64%
vs. Michigan average
1
station

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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
78/100
Escanaba Public Safety

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 B
36 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
36 personnel · 1 station

Escanaba Public Safety is a Career (Paid) department serving Escanaba, MI (Delta County), with 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,289 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,289 of 22,440
  • MI personnel rank #141 of 1,008
  • 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
  • 15 other listed departments in Delta County

Escanaba Public Safety vs. the national personnel distribution

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

36 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 02104 · Escanaba Public Safety, MI 36 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #7,289
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bunola Volunteer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bunola Volunteer Fire Company, 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 MI department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Escanaba, MI
FDID
02104

Staffing vs the Michigan average

How Escanaba Public Safety's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #141 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,289 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 64% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
112
MI departments
1,274

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Delta County

County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bunola Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 36 personnel

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