Department profile

Volunteer

Hilltop Fire District

Spartanburg, SC · Spartanburg County. Hilltop Fire District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

33
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Hilltop Fire District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the South Carolina average.

Top 39%
national personnel size
+32%
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
85/100
Hilltop Fire District

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
33 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness A
12 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
33 personnel · 1 station

Hilltop Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Spartanburg, SC (Spartanburg County), with 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,725 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,725 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #116 of 473
  • 3.03 stations per 100 personnel
  • 41 other listed departments in Spartanburg County

Hilltop Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 42216 · Hilltop Fire District, SC 33 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 33
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #8,725
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Central Ohio Join…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Central Ohio Joint Fire District, OH (+ 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
Spartanburg, SC
FDID
42216

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Hilltop Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #116 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,725 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 32% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Hilltop Fire District is 2.9% of Spartanburg County roster mass

The county lists 51 departments totaling 1,144 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 27% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.03 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 33 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Central Ohio Joint Fire District, OH (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 33 personnel

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