Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District

Spartanburg, SC · Spartanburg County. North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 6 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.

6
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the South Carolina average.

0th pct.
national personnel size
-76%
vs. South Carolina average
3
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
North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District

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
2 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness C
2.7 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
6 personnel · 3 stations

North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District is a Volunteer department serving Spartanburg, SC (Spartanburg County), with 3 stations and 6 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,346 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #22,346 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #459 of 473
  • 50.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 41 other listed departments in Spartanburg County

North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

6 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 42324 · North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District, SC 6 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-MICRO 6
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #22,346
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Sabine Fire…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: North Sabine Fire Protection District Hotwell Station, LA (+ 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Spartanburg, SC
FDID
42324

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #459 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,346 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 76% below the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

North Spartanburg Fire and Emergency Services District is 0.5% of Spartanburg County roster mass

The county lists 51 departments totaling 1,144 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 27% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

50.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 6 roster).

Photo-finish peer: North Sabine Fire Protection District Hotwell Station, LA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 6 personnel

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