Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Donaldson Center Fire Department

Greenville, SC · Greenville County. Donaldson Center Fire Department is a Career (Paid) 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

Donaldson Center Fire Department 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
Donaldson Center 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
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

Donaldson Center Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Greenville, SC (Greenville 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 #13,287 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #13,287 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #214 of 473
  • 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 35 other listed departments in Greenville County

Donaldson Center Fire Department 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 23105 · Donaldson Center Fire Department, SC 25 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 25
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #13,287
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cora Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cora Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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
CAREER
Location
Greenville, SC
FDID
23105

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Donaldson Center Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #214 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,287 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

Donaldson Center Fire Department is 2.3% of Greenville County roster mass

The county lists 48 departments totaling 1,091 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 46% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

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

Photo-finish peer: Cora Volunteer Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).

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

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Duncan Chapel Fire Department
Greenville · volunteer
Dunklin Fire Department
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Nationwide career peers near 25 personnel

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