Department profile

Career (Paid)

Greenwood Fire Department

Greenwood, MS · Leflore County. Greenwood Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 55 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

55
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 14%
national personnel size
+267%
vs. Mississippi average
4
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
17/100
Greenwood 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 F
13.8 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
55 personnel · 4 stations

Greenwood Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Greenwood, MS (Leflore County), with 4 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,154 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,154 of 22,440
  • MS personnel rank #28 of 316
  • 7.27 stations per 100 personnel
  • 7 other listed departments in Leflore County

Greenwood Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 42001 · Greenwood Fire Department, MS 55 personnel · 4 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 55
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #3,154
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Defreestville
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Defreestville Fire Department, NY (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Greenwood, MS
FDID
42001

Staffing vs the Mississippi average

How Greenwood Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #28 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,154 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 267% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
63
MS departments
751

County roster weight

Greenwood Fire Department carries 75.3% of Leflore County HIFLD personnel

Among 9 listed departments (73 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 11% of the county count. County / state rollup.

7.27 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 55 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Defreestville Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 55 personnel

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