Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBelvedere 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.
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.
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.
- Belvedere Volunte… (this dept) 32
- High Ford River Townsh…, MI 32
- Near Library Volunteer…, PA 32
- Near West Homestead Vo…, PA 32
- Near Ramsey, MN 32
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Belvedere, SC
- County
- Aiken County
- 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.
- 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
Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.