Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderMist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District
Mist, OR · Columbia County. Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 4 stations and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Oregon average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +88%
- vs. Oregon 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.
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.
Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Mist, OR (Columbia County), with 4 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,480 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,480 of 22,440
- OR personnel rank #49 of 237
- 8.51 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 5 other listed departments in Columbia County
Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 00433 · Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District, OR 47 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,480
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pintlala Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pintlala Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 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 OR department.
- Mist-Birkenfeld R… (this dept) 47
- High Abingdon Fire Pro…, IL 47
- Near Pintlala Volunteer, AL 47
- Near Bagley Volunteer…, AL 47
- Near Woodland, WA 47
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Mist, OR
- County
- Columbia County
- FDID
- 00433
Staffing vs the Oregon average
How Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oregon. In-state it ranks #49 of 237 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,480 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 42
- OR departments
- 465
County roster weight
Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District carries 27.8% of Columbia County HIFLD personnel
Among 7 listed departments (169 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 57% of the county count. County / state rollup.
8.51 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pintlala Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OR department.