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Horry County Fire Rescue

Little River, SC · Horry County. Horry County Fire Rescue is a fire department and 30 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.

30
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Horry County Fire Rescue pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the South Carolina average.

Top 46%
national personnel size
+20%
vs. South Carolina average
$15,120,141
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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
100/100
Horry County Fire Rescue

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
No station count on file for this department
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment A
$504,005 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
30 personnel

Horry County Fire Rescue is a fire department serving Little River, SC (Horry County) and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,256 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $15,120,141.

  • National personnel rank #10,256 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #152 of 473
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 7 other listed departments in Horry County

Horry County Fire Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

30 Top 46% higher than 54% 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 SC-HORRY-COUNTY-FIRE-RESCUE-SC · Horry County Fire Rescue, SC 30 personnel

PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,256
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 167 Civil Enginee…
  • FEMA-HEAVY $15.1M
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: 167 Civil Engineering Squadron Fire Department, WV (+ 0 personnel)

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every SC department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Little River, SC

FEMA Grant History

$15.1M
Cumulative funding (FY2008–2020)
13
Awards
Year Award Amount
2020 EMW-2020-FF-00153 $6,278,236.8
2020 EMW-2020-FG-05114 $636,163.44
2020 EMW-2020-FG-01672 $294,602
2020 EMW-2020-FP-00245 $264,045.29
2019 EMW-2019-FG-00502 $738,417.77
2018 EMW-2018-FH-00491 $3,456,734.97
2014 EMW2013FF00066 $963,649
2013 EMW2012FO01275 $518,663
2013 EMW2012FH00243 $0
2011 EMW2010FF00060 $-130,493

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

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Horry County Fire Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #152 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,256 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 20% above the state average
Stations
Not reported
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Horry County Fire Rescue is 3.8% of Horry County roster mass

The county lists 12 departments totaling 780 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

Photo-finish peer: 167 Civil Engineering Squadron Fire Department, WV (+0 personnel).

Nearby Departments

City of Myrtle Beach Fire Department
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City of Surfside Beach Fire Department
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Conway Fire Department
Conway · career
Horry County Fire Rescue
Conway · career
Loris Volunteer Fire Department
Loris · volunteer
North Myrtle Beach Fire Rescue
North Myrtle Beach · career
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Nationwide departments near 30 personnel

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