Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderHorry 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 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.
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.
- Horry County Fire… (this dept) 30
- High Allen Township Vo…, IL 30
- Near 167 Civil Enginee…, WV 30
- Near Akron-Princeville…, IL 30
- Near Alamo, TX 30
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Little River, SC
- County
- Horry County
FEMA Grant History
| 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.
- 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
Nationwide departments near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.