Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSouthwest Shiawassee Emergency Services Alliance Doing Business AS Perry Area Fire Rescue
Perry, MI · Shiawassee County. Southwest Shiawassee Emergency Services Alliance Doing Business AS Perry Area Fire Rescue is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Southwest Shiawassee Emergency Services Alliance Doing Business AS Perry Area Fire Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +114%
- vs. Michigan average
- 2
- 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.
Southwest Shiawassee Emergency Services Alliance Doing Business AS Perry Area Fire Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Perry, MI (Shiawassee County), with 2 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,515 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,515 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #86 of 1,008
- 4.26 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 13 other listed departments in Shiawassee County
Southwest Shiawassee Emergency Services Alliance Doing Business AS Perry Area Fire Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 07809 · Southwest Shiawassee Emergency Services Alliance Doing Business AS Perry Area Fire Rescue, MI 47 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,515
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wentworth Volunte…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Wentworth Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+ 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.
- Southwest Shiawas… (this dept) 47
- High Bb Road Volunteer, MO 47
- Near Wentworth Volunte…, NC 47
- Near Asheboro, NC 47
- Near Mohegan Tribal, CT 47
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Perry, MI
- County
- Shiawassee County
- FDID
- 07809
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Southwest Shiawassee Emergency Services Alliance Doing Business AS Perry Area Fire Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #86 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,515 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster geometry
Shiawassee County HIFLD mix around Southwest Shiawassee Emergency Services Alliance Doing Business AS Perry Area Fire Rescue
Shiawassee County: 14 departments, 312 personnel (9 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 50% of departments. County / state rollup.
4.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Wentworth Volunteer Fire Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.