Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderEffingham Fire Rescue
Springfield, GA · Effingham County. Effingham Fire Rescue is a Volunteer department, 7 stations and 109 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.
- 109
- Total personnel
- 7
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Effingham Fire Rescue pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Georgia average.
- Top 4%
- national personnel size
- +541%
- vs. Georgia average
- 7
- 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.
Effingham Fire Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Springfield, GA (Effingham County), with 7 stations and 109 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #797 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #797 of 22,440
- GA personnel rank #24 of 328
- 6.42 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 4 other listed departments in Effingham County
Effingham Fire Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
109 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 05100 · Effingham Fire Rescue, GA 109 personnel · 7 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 109
- STA-MULTI 7 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #797
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Southfield
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: City of Southfield 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 GA department.
- Effingham Fire Re… (this dept) 109
- High Greenport, NY 109
- Near City of Southfield, MI 109
- Near Gaithersburg-Wash…, MD 109
- Near Hill Air Force Ba…, UT 109
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Springfield, GA
- County
- Effingham County
- FDID
- 05100
Staffing vs the Georgia average
How Effingham Fire Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Georgia. In-state it ranks #24 of 328 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #797 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 7
- State fire deaths/yr
- 128
- GA departments
- 868
County roster weight
Effingham Fire Rescue carries 53.4% of Effingham County HIFLD personnel
Among 7 listed departments (204 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 57% of the county count. County / state rollup.
6.42 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (7 stations / 109 roster).
Photo-finish peer: City of Southfield Fire Department, MI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 109 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every GA department.