Department profile
OtherSaint Johns Fire Department
Kiawah Island, SC · Charleston County. Saint Johns Fire Department is a fire department and 7 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 7
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Saint Johns Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the South Carolina average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -72%
- vs. South Carolina average
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 Johns Fire Department is a fire department serving Kiawah Island, SC (Charleston County) and 7 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,305 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,305 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #454 of 473
- 18 other listed departments in Charleston County
Saint Johns Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
7 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 SC-SAINT-JOHNS-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-SC · Saint Johns Fire Department, SC 7 personnel
PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MICRO 7
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #22,305
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Army National Gua…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 2/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Army National Guard Crash and Rescue, NC (+ 0 personnel)
Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every SC department.
- Saint Johns (this dept) 7
- High City of Marble Fa…, TX 7
- Near Army National Gua…, NC 7
- Near Borden County Vol…, TX 7
- Near Brewster, KS 7
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Kiawah Island, SC
- County
- Charleston County
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Saint Johns Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #454 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,305 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Saint Johns Fire Department is 0.6% 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.
Photo-finish peer: Army National Guard Crash and Rescue, NC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 7 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.