Department profile
Career (Paid)Cayce Department of Public Safety - Fire Division
Cayce, SC · Lexington County. Cayce Department of Public Safety - Fire Division is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 6 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 6
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Cayce Department of Public Safety - Fire Division pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the South Carolina average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -76%
- vs. South Carolina average
- 1
- station
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.
Cayce Department of Public Safety - Fire Division is a Career (Paid) department serving Cayce, SC (Lexington County), with 1 station and 6 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,322 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,322 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #456 of 473
- 16.67 stations per 100 personnel
- 11 other listed departments in Lexington County
Cayce Department of Public Safety - Fire Division vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
6 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 32335 · Cayce Department of Public Safety - Fire Division, SC 6 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 6
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #22,322
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Delta Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Delta Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Cayce Department… (this dept) 6
- High Kanarraville, UT 6
- Near Delta Volunteer, LA 6
- Near Fort Bidwell Indi…, CA 6
- Near North Sabine Fire…, LA 6
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Cayce, SC
- County
- Lexington County
- FDID
- 32335
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Cayce Department of Public Safety - Fire Division's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #456 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,322 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Cayce Department of Public Safety - Fire Division is 2.2% of Lexington County roster mass
The county lists 12 departments totaling 270 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
16.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 6 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Delta Volunteer Fire Department, LA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 6 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.