Department profile
VolunteerLong Creek Grady Volunteer Fire Department
Rocky Point, NC · Pender County. Long Creek Grady Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 40 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 40
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Long Creek Grady Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.
- Top 27%
- national personnel size
- +54%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 1
- station
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.
Long Creek Grady Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Rocky Point, NC (Pender County), with 1 station and 40 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,135 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #6,135 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #299 of 932
- 2.50 stations per 100 personnel
- 10 other listed departments in Pender County
Long Creek Grady Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
40 Top 27% higher than 73% 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 07104 · Long Creek Grady Volunteer Fire Department, NC 40 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 40
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #6,135
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fishers Peak Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Fishers Peak Volunteer Fire Department, CO (+ 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 NC department.
- Long Creek Grady… (this dept) 40
- High Logan Township Un…, PA 40
- Near Fishers Peak Volu…, CO 40
- Near Fairfield Volunte…, NJ 40
- Near Essex Fells, NJ 40
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Rocky Point, NC
- County
- Pender County
- FDID
- 07104
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Long Creek Grady Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #299 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,135 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Long Creek Grady Volunteer Fire Department is 7.8% of Pender County roster mass
The county lists 12 departments totaling 512 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 33% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 40 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Fishers Peak Volunteer Fire Department, CO (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 40 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.