Department profile

Volunteer

Hartsville Fire Department

Hartsville, SC · Darlington County. Hartsville Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 28 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

28
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Hartsville Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the South Carolina average.

49th pct.
national personnel size
+12%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
75/100
Hartsville 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 B
28 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness A
7 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
28 personnel · 1 station

Hartsville Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Hartsville, SC (Darlington County), with 1 station and 28 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,518 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #11,518 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #167 of 473
  • 3.57 stations per 100 personnel
  • 6 other listed departments in Darlington County

Hartsville Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

28 Top 51% higher than 49% 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 16304 · Hartsville Fire Department, SC 28 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 28
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-MID #11,518
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fort Lewis Fire a…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Fort Lewis Fire and EMS Company - Roanoke County Fire and Rescue, VA (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Hartsville, SC
FDID
16304

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Hartsville Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #167 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,518 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 12% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Hartsville Fire Department is 9.0% of Darlington County roster mass

The county lists 9 departments totaling 311 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 11% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.57 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 28 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Fort Lewis Fire and EMS Company - Roanoke County Fire and Rescue, VA (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

City of Darlington Fire Department
Darlington · volunteer
Darlington County Fire District
Hartsville · volunteer
Hartsville Rescue Squad
Hartsville · other
Palmetto Rural Fire Department
Darlington · volunteer
Society Hill Fire Department
Society Hill · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 28 personnel

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