Department profile
Career (Paid)Saint Andrews Fire Department
Charleston, SC · Charleston County. Saint Andrews Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 54 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 54
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Saint Andrews Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the South Carolina average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +116%
- vs. South Carolina average
- 4
- 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.
Saint Andrews Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Charleston, SC (Charleston County), with 4 stations and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,378 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,378 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #40 of 473
- 7.41 stations per 100 personnel
- 18 other listed departments in Charleston County
Saint Andrews Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
54 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 10311 · Saint Andrews Fire Department, SC 54 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 54
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,378
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Morrisville Fire…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Morrisville Fire and Rescue Department, NC (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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.
- Saint Andrews (this dept) 54
- High Submarine Base Fi…, CT 54
- Near Morrisville Fire…, NC 54
- Near Lakeland - Lanier…, GA 54
- Near West Stanly Fire…, NC 54
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Charleston, SC
- County
- Charleston County
- FDID
- 10311
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Saint Andrews Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #40 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,378 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Saint Andrews Fire Department is 4.8% of Charleston County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 1,130 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
7.41 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 54 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Morrisville Fire and Rescue Department, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 54 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.