Department profile
Career (Paid)Midland Fire Department
Midland, MI · Midland County. Midland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 45
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Midland Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.
- Top 22%
- national personnel size
- +105%
- 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.
Midland Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Midland, MI (Midland County), with 3 stations and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,914 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,914 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #90 of 1,008
- 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
- 14 other listed departments in Midland County
Midland Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 05606 · Midland Fire Department, MI 45 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,914
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Montevallo Fire a…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Montevallo Fire and Rescue, AL (+ 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.
- Midland (this dept) 45
- High Logan, UT 45
- Near Montevallo Fire a…, AL 45
- Near Advance Volunteer, IN 45
- Near Goodwill Fire Com…, PA 45
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Midland, MI
- County
- Midland County
- FDID
- 05606
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Midland Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #90 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,914 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Midland County
County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 45 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Montevallo Fire and Rescue, AL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.