Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Harris Township Fire Department

Granger, IN · St Joseph County. Harris Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 33 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.

33
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Harris Township Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Indiana average.

Top 39%
national personnel size
+43%
vs. Indiana 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
27/100
Harris Township 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 D
16.5 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
33 personnel · 2 stations

Harris Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Granger, IN (St Joseph County), with 2 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,717 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,717 of 22,440
  • IN personnel rank #185 of 589
  • 6.06 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 17 other listed departments in St Joseph County

Harris Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 71004 · Harris Township Fire Department, IN 33 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 33
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,717
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Vesper Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Vesper Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+ 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 IN department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Granger, IN
FDID
71004

Staffing vs the Indiana average

How Harris Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #185 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,717 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 43% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
94
IN departments
969

County roster fringe

Harris Township Fire Department is 7.3% of St Joseph County roster mass

The county lists 22 departments totaling 454 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 91% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.06 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 33 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Vesper Volunteer Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 33 personnel

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