Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGautier Fire Department - Central Station
Gautier, MS · Jackson County. Gautier Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 30 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.
- 30
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Gautier Fire Department - Central Station pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Mississippi average.
- Top 45%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- vs. Mississippi 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.
Gautier Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Gautier, MS (Jackson County), with 3 stations and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,173 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #10,173 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #104 of 316
- 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Jackson County
Gautier Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
30 Top 45% higher than 55% 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 30008 · Gautier Fire Department - Central Station, MS 30 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 30
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #10,173
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ouachita
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Ouachita Fire Department, AR (+ 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.
- Gautier Fire Depa… (this dept) 30
- High Malvern, AR 30
- Near Ouachita, AR 30
- Near Elk Garden Volunt…, WV 30
- Near Gray Court Area, SC 30
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Gautier, MS
- County
- Jackson County
- FDID
- 30008
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How Gautier Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #104 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,173 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County roster fringe
Gautier Fire Department - Central Station is 8.2% of Jackson County roster mass
The county lists 25 departments totaling 367 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 30 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Ouachita Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.