Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue

Sherrills Ford, NC · Catawba County. Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 64 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.

64
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+146%
vs. North Carolina average
3
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
43/100
Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue

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 C
21.3 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
64 personnel · 3 stations

Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue is a Volunteer department serving Sherrills Ford, NC (Catawba County), with 3 stations and 64 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,338 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,338 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #66 of 932
  • 4.69 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Catawba County

Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

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

64 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 01815 · Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue, NC 64 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 64
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,338
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Stanford Heights
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Stanford Heights Fire Department, NY (+ 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
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Sherrills Ford, NC
FDID
01815

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #66 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,338 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 146% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster geometry

Catawba County HIFLD mix around Sherrills Ford Terrell Fire and Rescue

Catawba County: 21 departments, 608 personnel (12 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 90% of departments. County / state rollup.

4.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 64 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Stanford Heights Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

Nationwide volunteer peers near 64 personnel

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