Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Tupelo Fire Department

Tupelo, MS · Lee County. Tupelo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 7 stations and 87 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.

87
Total personnel
7
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tupelo Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Mississippi average.

Top 6%
national personnel size
+480%
vs. Mississippi average
7
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
12/100
Tupelo 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
12.4 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
87 personnel · 7 stations

Tupelo Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Tupelo, MS (Lee County), with 7 stations and 87 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,250 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,250 of 22,440
  • MS personnel rank #11 of 316
  • 8.05 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Lee County

Tupelo Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

87 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 41011 · Tupelo Fire Department, MS 87 personnel · 7 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 87
  • STA-MULTI 7 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,250
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Piermont
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Piermont Fire Department, NY (+ 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 MS department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Tupelo, MS
FDID
41011

Staffing vs the Mississippi average

How Tupelo Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #11 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,250 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 480% above the state average
Stations
7
State fire deaths/yr
63
MS departments
751

County roster weight

Tupelo Fire Department carries 37.3% of Lee County HIFLD personnel

Among 13 listed departments (233 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 38% of the county count. County / state rollup.

8.05 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (7 stations / 87 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Piermont Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Richmond Fire Department
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Saltillo Fire Department
Saltillo · volunteer
Shannon Volunteer Fire Department
Shannon · volunteer
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Nationwide career peers near 87 personnel

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