Department profile
Career (Paid)City of Salisbury Fire Department
Salisbury, NC · Rowan County. City of Salisbury Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 72 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 72
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
City of Salisbury Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +177%
- vs. North 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 Salisbury Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Salisbury, NC (Rowan County), with 4 stations and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,790 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,790 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #49 of 932
- 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
- 27 other listed departments in Rowan County
City of Salisbury Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
72 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 08050 · City of Salisbury Fire Department, NC 72 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 72
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,790
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Florence Fire and…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Florence Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KY (+ 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 NC department.
- City of Salisbury (this dept) 72
- High City of Norwich, NY 72
- Near Florence Fire and…, KY 72
- Near City of Orange To…, NJ 72
- Near Yukon Fire, OK 72
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Salisbury, NC
- County
- Rowan County
- FDID
- 08050
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How City of Salisbury Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #49 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,790 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
City of Salisbury Fire Department is 8.4% of Rowan County roster mass
The county lists 32 departments totaling 860 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 72 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Florence Fire and Emergency Medical Services, KY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.