Department profile

Volunteer

Saint Clair Area Fire Department

Saint Clair, MI · St Clair County. Saint Clair Area Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

36
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Not reported
EMS service

The verdict

Saint Clair Area Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Michigan average.

Top 33%
national personnel size
+64%
vs. Michigan average
1
station

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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
78/100
Saint Clair Area Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity B
36 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
36 personnel · 1 station

Saint Clair Area Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Saint Clair, MI (St Clair County), with 1 station and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,464 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #7,464 of 22,440
  • MI personnel rank #150 of 1,008
  • 2.78 stations per 100 personnel
  • 19 other listed departments in St Clair County

Saint Clair Area Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

36 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 07417 · Saint Clair Area Fire Department, MI 36 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 36
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-UNK EMS pending
  • RANK-UPPER #7,464
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Rawlins
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Rawlins Fire Department, WY (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Saint Clair, MI
FDID
07417

Staffing vs the Michigan average

How Saint Clair Area Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #150 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,464 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 64% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
112
MI departments
1,274

County roster fringe

Saint Clair Area Fire Department is 6.8% of St Clair County roster mass

The county lists 23 departments totaling 531 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 70% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.78 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 36 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Rawlins Fire Department, WY (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.