Department profile

Volunteer

South Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department

Salisbury, NC · Rowan County. South Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 35 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

35
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

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

Top 36%
national personnel size
+35%
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
77/100
South Salisbury 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
35 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
35 personnel · 1 station

South Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Salisbury, NC (Rowan County), with 1 station and 35 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,120 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,120 of 22,440
  • NC personnel rank #442 of 932
  • 2.86 stations per 100 personnel
  • 27 other listed departments in Rowan County

South Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

35 Top 36% higher than 64% 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 08074 · South Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department, NC 35 personnel · 1 station

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

  • PERS-SMALL 35
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-UPPER #8,120
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Colonial Manor Fi…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Colonial Manor Fire Association, NJ (+ 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Salisbury, NC
FDID
08074

Staffing vs the North Carolina average

How South Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #442 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,120 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 35% above the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
131
NC departments
1,534

County roster fringe

South Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department is 4.1% of Rowan County roster mass

The county lists 32 departments totaling 860 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

2.86 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 35 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Colonial Manor Fire Association, NJ (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 35 personnel

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