Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOcean Springs Fire Department - James a Murray Senior Station
Ocean Springs, MS · Jackson County. Ocean Springs Fire Department - James a Murray Senior Station is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 33 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.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Ocean Springs Fire Department - James a Murray Senior Station pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount more than double the Mississippi average.
- Top 39%
- national personnel size
- +120%
- vs. Mississippi 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.
Ocean Springs Fire Department - James a Murray Senior Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Ocean Springs, MS (Jackson County), with 3 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,815 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,815 of 22,440
- MS personnel rank #89 of 316
- 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Jackson County
Ocean Springs Fire Department - James a Murray Senior Station vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 30015 · Ocean Springs Fire Department - James a Murray Senior Station, MS 33 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,815
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Colstrip Fire Dis…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Colstrip Fire District, MT (+ 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 MS department.
- Ocean Springs Fir… (this dept) 33
- High Florida Volunteer, NY 33
- Near Colstrip Fire Dis…, MT 33
- Near Craig Fire and Re…, NE 33
- Near Oakland Volunteer…, NE 33
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Ocean Springs, MS
- County
- Jackson County
- FDID
- 30015
Staffing vs the Mississippi average
How Ocean Springs Fire Department - James a Murray Senior Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #89 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,815 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 63
- MS departments
- 751
County roster fringe
Ocean Springs Fire Department - James a Murray Senior Station is 9.0% of Jackson County roster mass
The county lists 25 departments totaling 367 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 80% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Colstrip Fire District, MT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MS department.