Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department

Mount Olive, NC · Duplin County. Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the North Carolina average.

Top 41%
national personnel size
+23%
vs. North 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
72/100
Pleasant Grove 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 B
32 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
32 personnel · 1 station

Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Mount Olive, NC (Duplin County), with 1 station and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,272 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,272 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #533 of 932
  • 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 19 other listed departments in Duplin County

Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 41% higher than 59% 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 03111 · Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department, NC 32 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,272
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Black Creek Volun…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Black Creek Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 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 NC department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Mount Olive, NC
FDID
03111

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #533 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,272 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 23% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster fringe

Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department is 6.6% of Duplin County roster mass

The county lists 20 departments totaling 485 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 30% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Black Creek Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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