Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Bald Head Island, NC · Brunswick County. Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +81%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 1
- station
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.
Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Bald Head Island, NC (Brunswick County), with 1 station and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,384 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,384 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #178 of 932
- 2.13 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Brunswick County
Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 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 01004 · Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NC 47 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,384
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Boght Community F…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Boght Community Fire District, NY (+ 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.
- Bald Head Island… (this dept) 47
- High Mist-Birkenfeld R…, OR 47
- Near Boght Community F…, NY 47
- Near Northfield, NJ 47
- Near Lanett Fire and E…, AL 47
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bald Head Island, NC
- County
- Brunswick County
- FDID
- 01004
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #178 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,384 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Bald Head Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 8.9% of Brunswick County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 529 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 78% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Boght Community Fire District, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.