Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department

Moncks Corner, SC · Berkeley County. Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 14 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.

14
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.

7th pct.
national personnel size
-44%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
46/100
Pimlico Rural Volunteer 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 F
14 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness A
5 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
14 personnel · 1 station

Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Moncks Corner, SC (Berkeley County), with 1 station and 14 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,876 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,876 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #401 of 473
  • 7.14 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 35 other listed departments in Berkeley County

Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

14 Top 93% higher than 7% 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 08217 · Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department, SC 14 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-MICRO 14
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #20,876
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Elmira-Corning Re…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade, 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Moncks Corner, SC
FDID
08217

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #401 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,876 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 44% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department is 2.3% of Berkeley County roster mass

The county lists 44 departments totaling 612 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 32% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

7.14 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 14 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Fire Brigade, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 14 personnel

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