Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCornelius-Lemley Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Cornelius, NC · Mecklenburg County. Cornelius-Lemley Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 64 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.
- 64
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Cornelius-Lemley Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +146%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 2
- 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.
Cornelius-Lemley Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Cornelius, NC (Mecklenburg County), with 2 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,298 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,298 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #64 of 932
- 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Mecklenburg County
Cornelius-Lemley Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 06004 · Cornelius-Lemley Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NC 64 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 64
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,298
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lake Worth Fire R…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Lake Worth Fire Rescue, FL (+ 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.
- Cornelius-Lemley… (this dept) 64
- High Elmira, NY 64
- Near Lake Worth Fire R…, FL 64
- Near Bedford, MI 64
- Near Kentwood, MI 64
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cornelius, NC
- County
- Mecklenburg County
- FDID
- 06004
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Cornelius-Lemley Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #64 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,298 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Cornelius-Lemley Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 4.0% of Mecklenburg County roster mass
The county lists 20 departments totaling 1,592 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 100% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 64 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Lake Worth Fire Rescue, FL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 64 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.