Department profile
Career (Paid)Orangeburg Fire Department
Orangeburg, SC · Orangeburg County. Orangeburg Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 89 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 89
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Orangeburg Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the South Carolina average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +256%
- vs. South Carolina average
- 2
- stations
- $697,273
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Orangeburg Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Orangeburg, SC (Orangeburg County), with 2 stations and 89 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,204 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $697,273.
- National personnel rank #1,204 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #17 of 473
- 2.25 stations per 100 personnel
- 28 other listed departments in Orangeburg County
Orangeburg Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
89 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 38113 · Orangeburg Fire Department, SC 89 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 89
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,204
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Western Holmes Fi…
- FEMA-MID $697K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Western Holmes Fire District - Lakeville Station, OH (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Orangeburg (this dept) 89
- High Tri-Community Vol…, TN 89
- Near Western Holmes Fi…, OH 89
- Near Bruceton Mills-Br…, WV 89
- Near Skaneateles Volun…, NY 89
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Orangeburg, SC
- County
- Orangeburg County
- FDID
- 38113
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | EMW-2024-FG-00218 | $218,181.81 |
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-00414 | $479,090.9 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Orangeburg Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #17 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,204 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Orangeburg County
County mix is mostly volunteer (12 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
2.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 89 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Western Holmes Fire District - Lakeville Station, OH (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 89 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.