Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Brocks Mill Fire Department

Cheraw, SC · Chesterfield County. Brocks Mill Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 29 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.

29
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 49%
national personnel size
+16%
vs. South Carolina average
3
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
29/100
Brocks Mill 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 F
9.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness C
2.3 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
29 personnel · 3 stations

Brocks Mill Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Cheraw, SC (Chesterfield County), with 3 stations and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,952 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,952 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #159 of 473
  • 10.34 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Chesterfield County

Brocks Mill Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 13201 · Brocks Mill Fire Department, SC 29 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 29
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,952
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mazomanie
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Mazomanie Fire Department, WI (+ 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
Cheraw, SC
FDID
13201

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Brocks Mill Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #159 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,952 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 16% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Brocks Mill Fire Department is 8.2% of Chesterfield County roster mass

The county lists 17 departments totaling 354 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 24% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

10.34 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 29 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Mazomanie Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Alligator Fire District
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Bay Springs Fire Department
Patrick · volunteer
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Chesterfield · other
Cash Rural Fire Department
Cheraw · other
Cheraw Fire Department
Cheraw · volunteer
Chesterfield Fire Department
Chesterfield · volunteer
High Point Fire District
Pageland · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel

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