Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Daufuskie Island Fire District

Daufuskie Island, SC · Beaufort County. Daufuskie Island Fire District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 25 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.

25
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Daufuskie Island Fire District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the South Carolina average.

41st pct.
national personnel size
+0%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
54/100
Daufuskie Island Fire District

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
25 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
25 personnel · 1 station

Daufuskie Island Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Daufuskie Island, SC (Beaufort County), with 1 station and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,263 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #13,263 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #213 of 473
  • 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 9 other listed departments in Beaufort County

Daufuskie Island Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

25 Top 59% higher than 41% 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 07317 · Daufuskie Island Fire District, SC 25 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 25
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #13,263
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Marion Township
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Marion Township Fire Department, MI (+ 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Daufuskie Island, SC
FDID
07317

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Daufuskie Island Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #213 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,263 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 0% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Daufuskie Island Fire District is 4.4% of Beaufort County roster mass

The county lists 17 departments totaling 571 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 25 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Marion Township Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Bluffton Township Fire District
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Fripp Island Fire Department
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Hilton Head Island Fire and Rescue
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Parris Island Fire Rescue-Dod
Parris Island · career
Sheldon Township Fire Department
Seabrook · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 25 personnel

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