Department profile
Career (Paid)Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod
Shaw Air Force Base, SC · Sumter County. Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 86 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 86
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Not reported
- EMS service
The verdict
Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the South Carolina average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +244%
- vs. South 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.
Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod is a Career (Paid) department serving Shaw Air Force Base, SC (Sumter County), with 1 station and 86 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,283 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,283 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #18 of 473
- 1.16 stations per 100 personnel
- 3 other listed departments in Sumter County
Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
86 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 43420 · Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod, SC 86 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 86
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-UNK EMS pending
- RANK-TOP #1,283
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mountain View
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mountain View Fire Department, CA (+ 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.
- Shaw Air Force Ba… (this dept) 86
- High Howells, NY 86
- Near Mountain View, CA 86
- Near Redding, CA 86
- Near San Juan Fire Dep…, UT 86
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Shaw Air Force Base, SC
- County
- Sumter County
- FDID
- 43420
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #18 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,283 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster weight
Shaw Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod carries 57.0% of Sumter County HIFLD personnel
Among 5 listed departments (151 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 0% of the county count. County / state rollup.
1.16 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 86 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mountain View Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 86 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.