Department profile
VolunteerBelleville Fire Department
Saint Matthews, SC · Calhoun County. Belleville Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 17 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 17
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Belleville Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.
- 15th pct.
- national personnel size
- -32%
- vs. South 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.
Belleville Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Saint Matthews, SC (Calhoun County), with 2 stations and 17 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,997 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #18,997 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #359 of 473
- 11.76 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in Calhoun County
Belleville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
17 Top 85% higher than 15% 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 09204 · Belleville Fire Department, SC 17 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 17
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #18,997
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mapleton
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mapleton Fire Department, ND (+ 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 SC department.
- Belleville (this dept) 17
- High Tensed Rural Fire…, ID 17
- Near Mapleton, ND 17
- Near Harwood Fire Prot…, ND 17
- Near Smithburg Volunte…, WV 17
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Saint Matthews, SC
- County
- Calhoun County
- FDID
- 09204
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Belleville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #359 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,997 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Belleville Fire Department is 6.3% of Calhoun County roster mass
The county lists 11 departments totaling 272 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 9% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
11.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 17 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mapleton Fire Department, ND (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 17 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.