Department profile

Career (Paid)

Yazoo City Fire Department

Yazoo City, MS · Yazoo County. Yazoo City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 28 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

28
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Yazoo City Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well above the Mississippi average.

47th pct.
national personnel size
+87%
vs. Mississippi 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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
18/100
Yazoo City 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
14 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
28 personnel · 2 stations

Yazoo City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Yazoo City, MS (Yazoo County), with 2 stations and 28 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,888 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,888 of 22,440
  • MS personnel rank #141 of 316
  • 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
  • 5 other listed departments in Yazoo County

Yazoo City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

28 Top 53% higher than 47% 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 82007 · Yazoo City Fire Department, MS 28 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 28
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #11,888
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Donahue Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Donahue Volunteer Fire Department, IA (+ 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
Yazoo City, MS
FDID
82007

Staffing vs the Mississippi average

How Yazoo City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Mississippi. In-state it ranks #141 of 316 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,888 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 87% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
63
MS departments
751

County roster weight

Yazoo City Fire Department carries 45.2% of Yazoo County HIFLD personnel

Among 7 listed departments (62 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 29% of the county count. County / state rollup.

7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 28 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Donahue Volunteer Fire Department, IA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 28 personnel

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