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Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department

Smithville, GA · Sumter County. Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department. 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.

Not reported
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service
F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Southwest Sumter 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
No station count on file for this department
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
Other department profile

Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Smithville, GA (Sumter County). According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,497,797.

  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 6 other listed departments in Sumter County

Dispatch plate

Sheet GA-SOUTHWEST-SUMTER-VOLUNTEER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-GA · Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department, GA personnel n/a

PERS-UNK · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-UNK · GAP-UNK · FEMA-MID · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-UNK Staff pending
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UNK Rank pending
  • GAP-UNK Gap pending
  • FEMA-MID $1.5M
  • BOOK-PART 2/5 fields

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Smithville, GA

FEMA Grant History

$1.5M
Cumulative funding (FY2011–2024)
3
Awards
Year Award Amount
2024 EMW-2024-FF-00538 $265,200
2023 EMW-2023-FG-06360 $938,857.14
2011 EMW-2011-FO-0666 $293,740

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

County roster geometry

Sumter County HIFLD mix around Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department

Sumter County: 8 departments, 105 personnel (2 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 75% of departments. County / state rollup.

Nearby Departments

Andersonville Fire Department
Andersonville · volunteer
Leslie Fire Department
Leslie · other
Plains Volunteer Fire Department
Plains · volunteer
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many firefighters does Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department have?

Personnel data for Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

Does Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department provide EMS services?

Yes, Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department provides Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in addition to fire response.

How many fire stations does Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department operate?

Station count data for Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department is not available in the HIFLD database.

What type of fire department is Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department?

Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department is a fire department serving Sumter County, GA.

Has Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department received federal grants?

Yes, Southwest Sumter Volunteer Fire Department has received 3 FEMA grants totaling $1,497,797.14 in cumulative AFG and SAFER awards across FY2011–2024 (sum of all recorded award years, not a single-year figure). The most recent award year in our extract is FY2024.

How many fire departments are in Georgia?

Georgia has 868 fire departments with 14,656 total personnel. 30% are volunteer departments.

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HIFLD/USFA registry extract, informational only, not a readiness rating.