Department profile
OtherSaint Joseph Charter Township Fire Department
Benton Harbor, MI · Berrien County. Saint Joseph Charter Township Fire Department is a fire department and 22 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 22
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Saint Joseph Charter Township Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Michigan average.
- 29th pct.
- national personnel size
- +0%
- 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.
Saint Joseph Charter Township Fire Department is a fire department serving Benton Harbor, MI (Berrien County) and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,954 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #15,954 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #590 of 1,008
- 28 other listed departments in Berrien County
Saint Joseph Charter Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
22 Top 71% higher than 29% 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 01123 · Saint Joseph Charter Township Fire Department, MI 22 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 22
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #15,954
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hasty - McClave F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hasty - McClave Fire Department and Ambulance Service, CO (+ 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.
- Saint Joseph Char… (this dept) 22
- High Egg Harbor City, NJ 22
- Near Hasty - McClave F…, CO 22
- Near Ohatchee Volunteer, AL 22
- Near Alexandria, AL 22
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Benton Harbor, MI
- County
- Berrien County
- FDID
- 01123
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Saint Joseph Charter Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #590 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,954 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
Saint Joseph Charter Township Fire Department is 3.5% 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: Hasty - McClave Fire Department and Ambulance Service, CO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 22 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.