Department profile
VolunteerFort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department
Fort Lawn, SC · Chester County. Fort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 25 total personnel. 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
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Fort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the South Carolina average.
- 40th 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.
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.
Fort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Fort Lawn, SC (Chester 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 #13,387 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #13,387 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #216 of 473
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 8 other listed departments in Chester County
Fort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
25 Top 60% higher than 40% 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 12202 · Fort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department, SC 25 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-UNK · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 25
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-MID #13,387
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kendall Park Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Kendall Park Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+ 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.
- Fort Lawn Volunte… (this dept) 25
- High Blue Lake Fire Pr…, CA 25
- Near Kendall Park Volu…, NJ 25
- Near Akron Volunteer, CO 25
- Near Bayard Volunteer, WV 25
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Fort Lawn, SC
- County
- Chester County
- FDID
- 12202
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Fort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #216 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,387 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster geometry
Chester County HIFLD mix around Fort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department
Chester County: 15 departments, 249 personnel (6 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 0% of departments. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 25 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Kendall Park Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 25 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.