Department profile

Volunteer

Rose Hill Fire Department

Rose Hill, NC · Duplin County. Rose Hill Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 44 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

44
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Rose Hill Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the North Carolina average.

Top 23%
national personnel size
+69%
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.

A
PlainFireData Composite Score
88/100
Rose Hill 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 A
44 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
44 personnel · 1 station

Rose Hill Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Rose Hill, NC (Duplin County), with 1 station and 44 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,186 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #5,186 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #228 of 932
  • 2.27 stations per 100 personnel
  • 19 other listed departments in Duplin County

Rose Hill Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

44 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 03113 · Rose Hill Fire Department, NC 44 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 44
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #5,186
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aberdeen Fire and…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Aberdeen Fire and Rescue / Advanced Care, SD (+ 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
Rose Hill, NC
FDID
03113

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How Rose Hill Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #228 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,186 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 69% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster fringe

Rose Hill Fire Department is 9.1% 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.

2.27 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 44 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Aberdeen Fire and Rescue / Advanced Care, SD (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 44 personnel

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