Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderMurrells Inlet Garden City Fire District
Murrells Inlet, SC · Georgetown County. Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire District is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 59 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.
- 59
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the South Carolina average.
- Top 12%
- national personnel size
- +136%
- 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.
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.
Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Murrells Inlet, SC (Georgetown County), with 2 stations and 59 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,784 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,784 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #32 of 473
- 3.39 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 6 other listed departments in Georgetown County
Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
59 Top 12% higher than 88% 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 22204 · Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire District, SC 59 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 59
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,784
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sandusky
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sandusky Fire Department, OH (+ 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.
- Murrells Inlet Ga… (this dept) 59
- High West Leyden Fire…, NY 59
- Near Sandusky, OH 59
- Near Llanerch Fire Com…, PA 59
- Near Randolph, MA 59
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Murrells Inlet, SC
- County
- Georgetown County
- FDID
- 22204
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #32 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,784 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire District is 7.1% of Georgetown County roster mass
The county lists 9 departments totaling 830 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 67% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.39 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 59 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sandusky Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 59 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.