Department profile
OtherJames Island Public Service District
James Island, SC · Charleston County. James Island Public Service District is a fire department and 5 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 5
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
James Island Public Service District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the South Carolina average.
- 0th pct.
- national personnel size
- -80%
- vs. South Carolina average
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.
James Island Public Service District is a fire department serving James Island, SC (Charleston County) and 5 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,378 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,378 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #464 of 473
- 18 other listed departments in Charleston County
James Island Public Service District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
5 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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-JAMES-ISLAND-PUBLIC-SERVICE-DISTRICT-SC · James Island Public Service District, SC 5 personnel
PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 5
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #22,378
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Arizona State Pri…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Arizona State Prison Complex Fire Brigade - Perryville, AZ (+ 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.
- James Island Publ… (this dept) 5
- High Cherry Volunteer, AZ 5
- Near Arizona State Pri…, AZ 5
- Near Beddington Volunt…, ME 5
- Near Byers Fire Depart…, KS 5
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- James Island, SC
- County
- Charleston County
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How James Island Public Service District's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #464 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,378 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
James Island Public Service District is 0.4% of Charleston County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 1,130 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Arizona State Prison Complex Fire Brigade - Perryville, AZ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 5 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.