Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderVan Buren Township Fire Department
Belleville, MI · Wayne County. Van Buren Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 34 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.
- 34
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Van Buren Township Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Michigan average.
- Top 38%
- national personnel size
- +55%
- 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.
Van Buren Township Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Belleville, MI (Wayne County), with 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,534 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,534 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #180 of 1,008
- 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 44 other listed departments in Wayne County
Van Buren Township Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
34 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 08248 · Van Buren Township Fire Department, MI 34 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 34
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,534
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Herring Volunteer…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Herring Volunteer Fire and Rescue, 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.
- Van Buren Township (this dept) 34
- High Star Cross Volunt…, NJ 34
- Near Herring Volunteer…, NC 34
- Near Clement Volunteer, NC 34
- Near Hanahan Fire and…, SC 34
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Belleville, MI
- County
- Wayne County
- FDID
- 08248
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Van Buren Township Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #180 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,534 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 fringe
Van Buren Township Fire Department is 2.1% of Wayne County roster mass
The county lists 59 departments totaling 1,641 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 34 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Herring Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 34 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.