Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Haw River Fire Department

Haw River, NC · Alamance County. Haw River Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 29 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.

29
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Haw River Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the North Carolina average.

Top 49%
national personnel size
+12%
vs. North Carolina average
1
station
$496,000
FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record

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
62/100
Haw River 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
29 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment C
$17,103 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
29 personnel · 1 station

Haw River Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Haw River, NC (Alamance County), with 1 station and 29 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #11,068 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $496,000.

  • National personnel rank #11,068 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #647 of 932
  • 3.45 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 13 other listed departments in Alamance County

Haw River Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

29 Top 49% higher than 51% 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 00108 · Haw River Fire Department, NC 29 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 29
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #11,068
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Birmingport Fire…
  • FEMA-LIGHT $496K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Birmingport Fire District, AL (+ 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 NC department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Haw River, NC
FDID
00108

FEMA Grant History

$496K
Cumulative funding (FY2021)
1
Awards
Year Award Amount
2021 EMW-2021-FF-01497 $496,000

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How Haw River Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #647 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #11,068 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 12% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster fringe

Haw River Fire Department is 4.9% of Alamance County roster mass

The county lists 21 departments totaling 586 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 52% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 29 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Birmingport Fire District, AL (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 29 personnel

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