Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Lansing Fire and Rescue

Lansing, MI · Ingham County. Lansing Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 9 stations and 235 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.

235
Total personnel
9
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lansing Fire and Rescue pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.

Top 1%
national personnel size
+968%
vs. Michigan average
9
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
57/100
Lansing Fire and Rescue

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
26.1 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
235 personnel · 9 stations

Lansing Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Lansing, MI (Ingham County), with 9 stations and 235 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #173 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #173 of 22,440
  • MI personnel rank #3 of 1,008
  • 3.83 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 14 other listed departments in Ingham County

Lansing Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

235 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 03304 · Lansing Fire and Rescue, MI 235 personnel · 9 stations

PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-LARGE 235
  • STA-MULTI 9 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #173
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beaumont Fire and…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Beaumont Fire and Rescue, TX ( -1 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
Lansing, MI
FDID
03304

Staffing vs the Michigan average

How Lansing Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #3 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #173 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 968% above the state average
Stations
9
State fire deaths/yr
112
MI departments
1,274

County roster weight

Lansing Fire and Rescue carries 39.9% of Ingham County HIFLD personnel

Among 19 listed departments (589 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 37% of the county count. County / state rollup.

3.83 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (9 stations / 235 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Beaumont Fire and Rescue, TX (-1 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 235 personnel

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