Department profile
VolunteerPacolet Fire District
Pacolet, SC · Spartanburg County. Pacolet Fire District is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 55 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 55
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Pacolet Fire District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the South Carolina average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +120%
- 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.
Pacolet Fire District is a Volunteer department serving Pacolet, SC (Spartanburg County), with 2 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,227 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,227 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #38 of 473
- 3.64 stations per 100 personnel
- 41 other listed departments in Spartanburg County
Pacolet Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 42225 · Pacolet Fire District, SC 55 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,227
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Sand Lake
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: West Sand Lake Fire Department, NY (+ 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.
- Pacolet Fire Dist… (this dept) 55
- High Picture Rocks Vol…, PA 55
- Near West Sand Lake, NY 55
- Near Defreestville, NY 55
- Near Greenwood, MS 55
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Pacolet, SC
- County
- Spartanburg County
- FDID
- 42225
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Pacolet Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #38 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,227 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
Pacolet Fire District is 4.8% 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.
3.64 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: West Sand Lake Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.