Department profile
Career (Paid)Forsyth County Fire Department
Winston Salem, NC · Forsyth County. Forsyth County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 56 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 56
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Forsyth County Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +115%
- vs. North 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.
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.
Forsyth County Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Winston Salem, NC (Forsyth County), with 1 station and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,989 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,989 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #85 of 932
- 1.79 stations per 100 personnel
- 22 other listed departments in Forsyth County
Forsyth County Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
56 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 03418 · Forsyth County Fire Department, NC 56 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 56
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #2,989
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Great Barrington
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Great Barrington Fire Department, MA (+ 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 NC department.
- Forsyth County (this dept) 56
- High Scotland Volunteer, CT 56
- Near Great Barrington, MA 56
- Near Portage, MI 56
- Near Chews Landing, NJ 56
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Winston Salem, NC
- County
- Forsyth County
- FDID
- 03418
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Forsyth County Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #85 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,989 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Forsyth County Fire Department is 5.5% of Forsyth County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 1,020 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.79 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 56 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Great Barrington Fire Department, MA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 56 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.