Department profile

Volunteer

Charlotte Road-Van Wyck Fire Department

Lancaster, SC · Lancaster County. Charlotte Road-Van Wyck Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

15
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Charlotte Road-Van Wyck Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.

11th pct.
national personnel size
-40%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
40/100
Charlotte Road-Van Wyck 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 D
15 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness B
3 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
15 personnel · 1 station

Charlotte Road-Van Wyck Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Lancaster, SC (Lancaster County), with 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,051 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,051 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #382 of 473
  • 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • 20 other listed departments in Lancaster County

Charlotte Road-Van Wyck Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

15 Top 89% higher than 11% 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 29205 · Charlotte Road-Van Wyck Fire Department, SC 15 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 15
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #20,051
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Peardale-Chicago…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Peardale-Chicago Park Fire Protection District, CA (+ 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
Lancaster, SC
FDID
29205

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Charlotte Road-Van Wyck Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #382 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,051 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 40% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Charlotte Road-Van Wyck Fire Department is 3.7% of Lancaster County roster mass

The county lists 24 departments totaling 405 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 17% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 15 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Peardale-Chicago Park Fire Protection District, CA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 15 personnel

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