Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Saint Clair Shores Fire Department

Saint Clair Shores, MI · Macomb County. Saint Clair Shores Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 51 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.

51
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Saint Clair Shores Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.

Top 17%
national personnel size
+132%
vs. Michigan 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
28/100
Saint Clair Shores 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 D
17 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
51 personnel · 3 stations

Saint Clair Shores Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Saint Clair Shores, MI (Macomb County), with 3 stations and 51 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,746 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,746 of 22,440
  • MI personnel rank #73 of 1,008
  • 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 29 other listed departments in Macomb County

Saint Clair Shores Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

51 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 05016 · Saint Clair Shores Fire Department, MI 51 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 51
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,746
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Denmark
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Denmark Fire Department, SC (+ 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 MI department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Saint Clair Shores, MI
FDID
05016

Staffing vs the Michigan average

How Saint Clair Shores Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #73 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,746 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 132% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
112
MI departments
1,274

County roster fringe

Saint Clair Shores Fire Department is 4.1% of Macomb County roster mass

The county lists 37 departments totaling 1,233 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 92% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 51 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Denmark Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 51 personnel

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