Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBills Creek Volunteer Fire Department
Lake Lure, NC · Rutherford County. Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 36 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.
- 36
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the North Carolina average.
- Top 32%
- national personnel size
- +38%
- 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.
Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lake Lure, NC (Rutherford County), with 2 stations and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,222 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,222 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #384 of 932
- 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Rutherford County
Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
36 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 08114 · Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department, NC 36 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 36
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,222
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wequetequock
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Wequetequock Fire Department, CT (+ 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.
- Bills Creek Volun… (this dept) 36
- High Holiday Island, AR 36
- Near Wequetequock, CT 36
- Near Bismarck Rural, ND 36
- Near Grosse Pointe Far…, MI 36
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Lake Lure, NC
- County
- Rutherford County
- FDID
- 08114
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #384 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,222 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
Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department is 5.8% of Rutherford County roster mass
The county lists 21 departments totaling 618 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 52% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 36 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Wequetequock Fire Department, CT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 36 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.