Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department

Smyrna, SC · York County. Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the South Carolina average.

Top 42%
national personnel size
+28%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
72/100
Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department

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 B
32 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
32 personnel · 1 station

Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Smyrna, SC (York County), with 1 station and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #9,331 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #9,331 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #134 of 473
  • 3.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 20 other listed departments in York County

Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 42% higher than 58% 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 46214 · Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department, SC 32 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #9,331
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Schwenksville Fir…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Schwenksville Fire Company, PA (+ 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 SC department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Smyrna, SC
FDID
46214

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #134 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #9,331 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 28% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Smyrna Volunteer Fire Department is 5.2% of York County roster mass

The county lists 24 departments totaling 612 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 50% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 32 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Schwenksville Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 32 personnel

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