Department profile
VolunteerBuffalo Volunteer Fire Department
Blacksburg, SC · Cherokee County. Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 21 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 21
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.
- 28th pct.
- national personnel size
- -16%
- 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.
Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Blacksburg, SC (Cherokee County), with 2 stations and 21 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,145 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #16,145 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #289 of 473
- 9.52 stations per 100 personnel
- 12 other listed departments in Cherokee County
Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
21 Top 72% higher than 28% 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 11213 · Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department, SC 21 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 21
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #16,145
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ New Salem
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: New Salem Fire Department, MA (+ 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.
- Buffalo Volunteer (this dept) 21
- High Remer, MN 21
- Near New Salem, MA 21
- Near Tate, GA 21
- Near Fullerton, ND 21
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Blacksburg, SC
- County
- Cherokee County
- FDID
- 11213
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #289 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,145 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
Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department is 5.4% of Cherokee County roster mass
The county lists 14 departments totaling 391 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 7% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
9.52 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 21 roster).
Photo-finish peer: New Salem Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 21 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.