Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderConover Fire Department
Conover, NC · Catawba County. Conover Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 47 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.
- 47
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Conover Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.
- Top 20%
- national personnel size
- +81%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 3
- stations
- $1,863,438
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Conover Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Conover, NC (Catawba County), with 3 stations and 47 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,423 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,863,438.
- National personnel rank #4,423 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #182 of 932
- 6.38 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Catawba County
Conover Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 01804 · Conover Fire Department, NC 47 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 47
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,423
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Homestead Volunte…
- FEMA-MID $1.9M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Homestead 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 NC department.
- Conover (this dept) 47
- High Northfield, NJ 47
- Near Homestead Volunte…, PA 47
- Near Northvale, NJ 47
- Near Lanett Fire and E…, AL 47
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Conover, NC
- County
- Catawba County
- FDID
- 01804
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-09715 | $688,823.8 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FF-00364 | $586,740 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00206 | $0 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FO01452 | $328,820 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FH00513 | $259,054 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Conover Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #182 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,423 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Conover Fire Department is 7.7% of Catawba County roster mass
The county lists 21 departments totaling 608 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 90% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 47 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Homestead Volunteer Fire Department, PA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 47 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.