Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer Fire Department

Bonneau, SC · Berkeley County. Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 20 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.

20
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.

23rd pct.
national personnel size
-20%
vs. South Carolina average
2
stations

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
27/100
Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer 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 F
10 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness C
2 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
20 personnel · 2 stations

Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Bonneau, SC (Berkeley County), with 2 stations and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,235 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #17,235 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #314 of 473
  • 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 35 other listed departments in Berkeley County

Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

20 Top 77% higher than 23% 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 08213 · Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer Fire Department, SC 20 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 20
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #17,235
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Repaupo Volunteer…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Repaupo Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+ 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Bonneau, SC
FDID
08213

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #314 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,235 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 20% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Lake Moultrie Rural Volunteer Fire Department is 3.3% of Berkeley County roster mass

The county lists 44 departments totaling 612 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 32% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 20 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Repaupo Volunteer Fire Company, NJ (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 20 personnel

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