Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMeridian Township Fire Department
Okemos, MI · Ingham County. Meridian Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 42 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.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Meridian Township Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Michigan average.
- Top 25%
- national personnel size
- +91%
- vs. Michigan 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.
Meridian Township Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Okemos, MI (Ingham County), with 3 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,541 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,541 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #100 of 1,008
- 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 14 other listed departments in Ingham County
Meridian Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 03309 · Meridian Township Fire Department, MI 42 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,541
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lyndonville
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lyndonville Fire Department, VT (+ 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.
- Meridian Township (this dept) 42
- High Gilpin Township V…, PA 42
- Near Lyndonville, VT 42
- Near Central Dekalb Co…, MO 42
- Near Bwx Technologies…, VA 42
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Okemos, MI
- County
- Ingham County
- FDID
- 03309
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Meridian Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #100 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,541 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster fringe
Meridian Township Fire Department is 7.1% of Ingham County roster mass
The county lists 19 departments totaling 589 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lyndonville Fire Department, VT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.