Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department
Chesnee, SC · Spartanburg County. Cooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 21 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.
- 21
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.
- 28th pct.
- national personnel size
- -16%
- vs. South Carolina average
- 1
- station
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.
Cooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Chesnee, SC (Spartanburg County), with 1 station and 21 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,193 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #16,193 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #290 of 473
- 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 41 other listed departments in Spartanburg County
Cooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
21 Top 72% higher than 28% 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 42244 · Cooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department, SC 21 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 21
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #16,193
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Santa Barbara Cou…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Santa Barbara County Fire Department, CA (+ 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.
- Cooley Springs-Fi… (this dept) 21
- High Scranton, AR 21
- Near Santa Barbara Cou…, CA 21
- Near Subiaco/Crossroads, AR 21
- Near Oldham Volunteer, SD 21
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Chesnee, SC
- County
- Spartanburg County
- FDID
- 42244
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | EMW2006FF04428 | $-142,000 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Cooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #290 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,193 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Cooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department is 1.8% 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.
4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 21 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Santa Barbara County Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 21 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.