Department profile
OtherLexington County Fire Service
Batesburg-Leesville, SC · Lexington County. Lexington County Fire Service is a fire department and 45 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 45
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Lexington County Fire Service pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the South Carolina average.
- Top 22%
- 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.
Lexington County Fire Service is a fire department serving Batesburg-Leesville, SC (Lexington County) and 45 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,889 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,889 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #58 of 473
- 11 other listed departments in Lexington County
Lexington County Fire Service vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
45 Top 22% higher than 78% 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-LEXINGTON-COUNTY-FIRE-SERVICE-SC · Lexington County Fire Service, SC 45 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 45
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #4,889
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beach Park
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+ 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.
- Lexington County… (this dept) 45
- High Camden, ME 45
- Near Beach Park, IL 45
- Near Blue Hill Volunte…, ME 45
- Near Bonner Springs, KS 45
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Batesburg-Leesville, SC
- County
- Lexington County
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Lexington County Fire Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #58 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,889 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 geometry
Lexington County HIFLD mix around Lexington County Fire Service
Lexington County: 12 departments, 270 personnel (5 volunteer / 4 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 42% of departments. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Beach Park Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 45 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.