Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderMonitor Township Fire Department
Bay City, MI · Bay County. Monitor Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 35 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.
- 35
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Monitor Township Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Michigan average.
- Top 35%
- national personnel size
- +59%
- vs. Michigan average
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.
Monitor Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Bay City, MI (Bay County) and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,958 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,958 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #166 of 1,008
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Bay County
Monitor Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
35 Top 35% higher than 65% 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 00909 · Monitor Township Fire Department, MI 35 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 35
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,958
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brooksville Volun…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Brooksville Volunteer Fire and Rescue, 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 MI department.
- Monitor Township (this dept) 35
- High Berne, NY 35
- Near Brooksville Volun…, AL 35
- Near Adair, IA 35
- Near Susan Moore Volun…, AL 35
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bay City, MI
- County
- Bay County
- FDID
- 00909
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Monitor Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #166 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,958 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster fringe
Monitor Township Fire Department is 8.9% of Bay County roster mass
The county lists 18 departments totaling 394 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Brooksville Volunteer Fire and Rescue, AL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 35 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.