Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Olanta Rural Fire Department

Olanta, SC · Florence County. Olanta Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 25 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.

25
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Olanta Rural Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the South Carolina average.

39th pct.
national personnel size
+0%
vs. South 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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
64/100
Olanta Rural 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 C
25 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness B
4 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
25 personnel · 1 station

Olanta Rural Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Olanta, SC (Florence County), with 1 station and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,783 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #13,783 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #226 of 473
  • 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Florence County

Olanta Rural Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

25 Top 61% higher than 39% 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 21207 · Olanta Rural Fire Department, SC 25 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 25
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #13,783
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Regent Fire Prote…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Regent Fire Protection District, ND (+ 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
Olanta, SC
FDID
21207

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Olanta Rural Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #226 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,783 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 0% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Olanta Rural Fire Department is 5.5% of Florence County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 456 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 30% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 25 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Regent Fire Protection District, ND (+0 personnel).

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

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Sardis-Timmonsville Fire Department
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South Lynches Fire Department
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 25 personnel

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