Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSurprise Springs Rural Fire and Rescue
Baker City, OR · Baker County. Surprise Springs Rural Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 7 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.
- 7
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Surprise Springs Rural Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Oregon average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -72%
- vs. Oregon 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.
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.
Surprise Springs Rural Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Baker City, OR (Baker County), with 1 station and 7 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,311 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,311 of 22,440
- OR personnel rank #234 of 237
- 14.29 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 11 other listed departments in Baker County
Surprise Springs Rural Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
7 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 00537 · Surprise Springs Rural Fire and Rescue, OR 7 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 7
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #22,311
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alcorn Fire Stati…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Alcorn Fire Station, AR (+ 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 OR department.
- Surprise Springs… (this dept) 7
- High Brewster, KS 7
- Near Alcorn Fire Stati…, AR 7
- Near Army National Gua…, NC 7
- Near Borden County Vol…, TX 7
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Baker City, OR
- County
- Baker County
- FDID
- 00537
Staffing vs the Oregon average
How Surprise Springs Rural Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oregon. In-state it ranks #234 of 237 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,311 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 42
- OR departments
- 465
County roster fringe
Surprise Springs Rural Fire and Rescue is 5.7% of Baker County roster mass
The county lists 12 departments totaling 123 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 58% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
14.29 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 7 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Alcorn Fire Station, AR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 7 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OR department.