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Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department

Hickory, NC · Burke County. Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

Not reported
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service
F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Drowning Creek Volunteer 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
No station count on file for this department
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
Other department profile

Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Hickory, NC (Burke County). According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields.

  • 18 other listed departments in Burke County

Dispatch plate

Sheet NC-DROWNING-CREEK-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-NC · Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department, NC personnel n/a

PERS-UNK · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-UNK · GAP-UNK · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-THIN

  • PERS-UNK Staff pending
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UNK Rank pending
  • GAP-UNK Gap pending
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-THIN 1/5 fields

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Hickory, NC

County roster geometry

Burke County HIFLD mix around Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department

Burke County: 23 departments, 614 personnel (15 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 4% of departments. County / state rollup.

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many firefighters does Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department have?

Personnel data for Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

Does Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department provide EMS services?

Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department is not listed as providing EMS in the HIFLD record. Contact local emergency services to confirm which agency covers medical calls.

How many fire stations does Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department operate?

Station count data for Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

What type of fire department is Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department?

Drowning Creek Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Burke County, NC.

How many fire departments are in North Carolina?

North Carolina has 1,534 fire departments with 40,350 total personnel. 57% are volunteer departments.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Verify with USFA/FEMA →

HIFLD/USFA registry extract, informational only, not a readiness rating.