Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Cooley 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
64/100
Cooley Springs-Fingerville Fire Department

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.

Staffing capacity C
21 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness A
7 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
21 personnel · 1 station

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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Chesnee, SC
FDID
42244

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2007)
1
Awards
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.

▼ 16% below the state average
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).

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Campobello Fire Department
Campobello · other
Cherokee Springs Fire Department
Chesnee · volunteer
Chesnee Community Fire Department
Chesnee · volunteer
City of Landrum Fire Department
Landrum · volunteer
Converse Fire Department
Converse · volunteer
Cowpens Fire Department
Cowpens · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 21 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.