Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderAlamance Fire Department
Greensboro, NC · Guilford County. Alamance Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 46 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.
- 46
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Alamance Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +77%
- vs. North Carolina 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.
Alamance Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Greensboro, NC (Guilford County), with 2 stations and 46 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,541 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,541 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #194 of 932
- 4.35 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 23 other listed departments in Guilford County
Alamance Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
46 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 04101 · Alamance Fire Department, NC 46 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 46
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,541
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Donald Wescott Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, CO (+ 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 NC department.
- Alamance (this dept) 46
- High Rattlesnake Fire…, CO 46
- Near Donald Wescott Fi…, CO 46
- Near Johnson City, NY 46
- Near Blairstown Volunt…, MO 46
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Greensboro, NC
- County
- Guilford County
- FDID
- 04101
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Alamance Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #194 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,541 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Alamance Fire Department is 3.0% of Guilford County roster mass
The county lists 32 departments totaling 1,521 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 97% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.35 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 46 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, CO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 46 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.