Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Wixom Fire Department

Wixom, MI · Oakland County. Wixom Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 56 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.

56
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Wixom Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Michigan average.

Top 14%
national personnel size
+155%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
62/100
Wixom 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 B
28 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
56 personnel · 2 stations

Wixom Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Wixom, MI (Oakland County), with 2 stations and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,070 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,070 of 22,440
  • MI personnel rank #52 of 1,008
  • 3.57 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 51 other listed departments in Oakland County

Wixom Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

56 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 06346 · Wixom Fire Department, MI 56 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 56
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,070
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wyomissing Fire C…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Wyomissing Fire Company, PA (+ 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
Wixom, MI
FDID
06346

Staffing vs the Michigan average

How Wixom Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #52 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,070 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 155% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
112
MI departments
1,274

County roster fringe

Wixom Fire Department is 2.4% of Oakland County roster mass

The county lists 73 departments totaling 2,378 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 96% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 56 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Wyomissing Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 56 personnel

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