Department profile

Volunteer

Cherokee Springs Fire Department

Chesnee, SC · Spartanburg County. Cherokee Springs Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

34
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 37%
national personnel size
+36%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
54/100
Cherokee Springs 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
17 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness A
6 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
34 personnel · 2 stations

Cherokee Springs Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Chesnee, SC (Spartanburg County), with 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,286 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,286 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #109 of 473
  • 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
  • 41 other listed departments in Spartanburg County

Cherokee Springs Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

34 Top 37% higher than 63% 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 42205 · Cherokee Springs Fire Department, SC 34 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 34
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #8,286
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Rew Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Rew Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+ 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Chesnee, SC
FDID
42205

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Cherokee Springs Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #109 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,286 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 36% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Cherokee Springs Fire Department is 3.0% of Spartanburg County roster mass

The county lists 51 departments totaling 1,144 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 27% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 34 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Rew Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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Campobello Fire Department
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Chesnee Community Fire Department
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City of Landrum Fire Department
Landrum · volunteer
Converse Fire Department
Converse · volunteer
Cowpens Fire Department
Cowpens · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 34 personnel

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