Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Pamplico, SC · Florence County. Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 22 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.

22
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the South Carolina average.

29th pct.
national personnel size
-12%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
28/100
Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue

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
11 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness C
2 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
22 personnel · 2 stations

Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Pamplico, SC (Florence County), with 2 stations and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #15,875 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #15,875 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #273 of 473
  • 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 12 other listed departments in Florence County

Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

22 Top 71% higher than 29% 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 21229 · Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue, SC 22 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 22
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #15,875
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Smithville
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Smithville Fire Department, TN (+ 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Pamplico, SC
FDID
21229

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #273 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #15,875 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 12% below the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Pamplico Volunteer Fire and Rescue is 4.8% 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.

9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 22 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Smithville Fire Department, TN (+0 personnel).

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

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Lake City Fire Department
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Olanta Rural Fire Department
Olanta · volunteer
Sardis-Timmonsville Fire Department
Timmonsville · other
South Lynches Fire Department
Lake City · volunteer
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Nationwide volunteer peers near 22 personnel

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