Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Tri-Township Fire Department

Saint Charles, MI · Saginaw County. Tri-Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 40 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.

40
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tri-Township Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Michigan average.

Top 28%
national personnel size
+82%
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
15/100
Tri-Township 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 F
13.3 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
40 personnel · 3 stations

Tri-Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Saint Charles, MI (Saginaw County), with 3 stations and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,373 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,373 of 22,440
  • MI personnel rank #121 of 1,008
  • 7.50 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 25 other listed departments in Saginaw County

Tri-Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

40 Top 28% higher than 72% 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 07317 · Tri-Township Fire Department, MI 40 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 40
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,373
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Tisbury
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: West Tisbury Fire Department, MA (+ 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Saint Charles, MI
FDID
07317

Staffing vs the Michigan average

How Tri-Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #121 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,373 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 82% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
112
MI departments
1,274

County roster fringe

Tri-Township Fire Department is 5.3% of Saginaw County roster mass

The county lists 27 departments totaling 756 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 70% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

7.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 40 roster).

Photo-finish peer: West Tisbury Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).

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

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Buena Vista Fire Department
Saginaw · volunteer
Chesaning Brady Fire Department
Chesaning · volunteer
Frankenmuth Fire Department
Frankenmuth · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel

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