Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department

Belvedere, SC · Aiken County. Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the South Carolina average.

Top 40%
national personnel size
+28%
vs. South Carolina average

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
0/100
Belvedere Volunteer 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
No station count on file for this department
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
32 personnel

Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Belvedere, SC (Aiken County) and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,957 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,957 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #118 of 473
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 30 other listed departments in Aiken County

Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 02204 · Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department, SC 32 personnel

PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,957
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Library Volunteer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Library Volunteer 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 SC department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Belvedere, SC
FDID
02204

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #118 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,957 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 28% above the state average
Stations
Not reported
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department is 3.8% of Aiken County roster mass

The county lists 33 departments totaling 851 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 24% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

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

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

Nearby Departments

Bath Fire Department
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Bath Fire Department
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Beech Island Fire Department
Beech Island · volunteer
Belvedere Volunteer Fire Department
North Augusta · other
Center Fire Department
Aiken · volunteer
Clearwater Fire and Rescue Department
Beech Island · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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