Department profile
Career (Paid)Conway Fire Department
Conway, SC · Horry County. Conway Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 42 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Conway Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the South Carolina average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +68%
- vs. South Carolina average
- 3
- 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.
Conway Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Conway, SC (Horry County), with 3 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,461 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,461 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #66 of 473
- 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
- 7 other listed departments in Horry County
Conway Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 26302 · Conway Fire Department, SC 42 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #5,461
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sewanee Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sewanee Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+ 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.
- Conway (this dept) 42
- High Earlville, NY 42
- Near Sewanee Volunteer, TN 42
- Near Sparta Center Vol…, NY 42
- Near Princeton Fire Te…, IN 42
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Conway, SC
- County
- Horry County
- FDID
- 26302
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Conway Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #66 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,461 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Conway Fire Department is 5.4% of Horry County roster mass
The county lists 12 departments totaling 780 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sewanee Volunteer Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.