Department profile
OtherMorris Volunteer Fire Department
Niles, MI · Berrien County. Morris Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department and 10 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 10
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Morris Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Michigan average.
- 2nd pct.
- national personnel size
- -55%
- 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.
Morris Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Niles, MI (Berrien County) and 10 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,987 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #21,987 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #985 of 1,008
- 28 other listed departments in Berrien County
Morris Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
10 Top 98% higher than 2% 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 01115 · Morris Volunteer Fire Department, MI 10 personnel
PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 10
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #21,987
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sugar Lake Fire P…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sugar Lake Fire Protection District, MO (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every MI department.
- Morris Volunteer (this dept) 10
- High Casscoe Fire Stat…, AR 10
- Near Sugar Lake Fire P…, MO 10
- Near Bert Mooney Airpo…, MT 10
- Near Lakeview Fire and…, AL 10
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Niles, MI
- County
- Berrien County
- FDID
- 01115
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Morris Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #985 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,987 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
Morris Volunteer Fire Department is 1.6% of Berrien County roster mass
The county lists 32 departments totaling 631 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Sugar Lake Fire Protection District, MO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 10 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.