Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCrowders Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Bessemer City, NC · Gaston County. Crowders Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 65 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.
- 65
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Crowders Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 10%
- national personnel size
- +150%
- vs. North 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.
Crowders Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Bessemer City, NC (Gaston County), with 3 stations and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,196 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,196 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #59 of 932
- 4.62 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 24 other listed departments in Gaston County
Crowders Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
65 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 03629 · Crowders Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue, NC 65 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 65
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #2,196
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mount Holly Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mount Holly Fire District - Relief Fire Engine Company, NJ (+ 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.
- Crowders Mountain… (this dept) 65
- High Rosedale Volunteer, MD 65
- Near Mount Holly Fire…, NJ 65
- Near West Warwick, RI 65
- Near Sugarcreek Townsh…, PA 65
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bessemer City, NC
- County
- Gaston County
- FDID
- 03629
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Crowders Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #59 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,196 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
Crowders Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 7.7% of Gaston County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 842 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 78% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 65 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mount Holly Fire District - Relief Fire Engine Company, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 65 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.