Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderSalter Path Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department
Indian Beach, NC · Carteret County. Salter Path Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 37 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.
- 37
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Salter Path Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the North Carolina average.
- Top 32%
- national personnel size
- +42%
- 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 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.
Salter Path Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is a Volunteer department serving Indian Beach, NC (Carteret County), with 1 station and 37 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,140 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,140 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #377 of 932
- 2.70 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Carteret County
Salter Path Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
37 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 16042 · Salter Path Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, NC 37 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 37
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #7,140
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Walhonding Valley…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Walhonding Valley Fire District, OH (+ 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.
- Salter Path Volun… (this dept) 37
- High City of Ely, NV 37
- Near Walhonding Valley…, OH 37
- Near Newbern Volunteer, VA 37
- Near Dublin Volunteer, VA 37
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Indian Beach, NC
- County
- Carteret County
- FDID
- 16042
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Salter Path Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #377 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,140 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster fringe
Salter Path Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is 6.8% of Carteret County roster mass
The county lists 26 departments totaling 543 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 85% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.70 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 37 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Walhonding Valley Fire District, OH (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 37 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.