Department profile

Career (Paid)

Greenwood Fire Department

Greenwood, SC · Greenwood County. Greenwood Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 42 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

42
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Greenwood Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the South Carolina average.

Top 25%
national personnel size
+68%
vs. South Carolina average
2
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
54/100
Greenwood 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
21 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness B
3.5 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
42 personnel · 2 stations

Greenwood Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Greenwood, SC (Greenwood County), with 2 stations and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,502 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,502 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #67 of 473
  • 4.76 stations per 100 personnel
  • 12 other listed departments in Greenwood County

Greenwood Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

42 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 24303 · Greenwood Fire Department, SC 42 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 42
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #5,502
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fairmont Fire Dep…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Fairmont Fire Department - Central, 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
Greenwood, SC
FDID
24303

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Greenwood Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #67 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,502 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 68% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Greenwood County

County mix is mostly volunteer (7 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

4.76 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 42 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Fairmont Fire Department - Central, WV (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide career peers near 42 personnel

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