Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderCity of Florence Fire Department
Florence, SC · Florence County. City of Florence Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 73 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.
- 73
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Florence Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the South Carolina average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +192%
- vs. South Carolina average
- 4
- 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.
City of Florence Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Florence, SC (Florence County), with 4 stations and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,746 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,746 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #23 of 473
- 5.48 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 12 other listed departments in Florence County
City of Florence Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 21101 · City of Florence Fire Department, SC 73 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 73
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,746
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Needham
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Needham Fire Department, MA (+ 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.
- City of Florence (this dept) 73
- High Lakeville, MN 73
- Near Needham, MA 73
- Near Titusville Fire a…, FL 73
- Near Carver, MA 73
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Florence, SC
- County
- Florence County
- FDID
- 21101
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How City of Florence Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #23 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,746 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Florence County
County mix is mostly volunteer (9 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
5.48 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 73 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Needham Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 73 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.