Department profile

Career (Paid)

Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station

Spartanburg, SC · Spartanburg County. Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 14 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

14
Total personnel
5
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.

7th pct.
national personnel size
-44%
vs. South Carolina average
5
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
13/100
Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station

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 F
2.8 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness D
1 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
14 personnel · 5 stations

Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station is a Career (Paid) department serving Spartanburg, SC (Spartanburg County), with 5 stations and 14 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #20,930 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #20,930 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #403 of 473
  • 35.71 stations per 100 personnel
  • 41 other listed departments in Spartanburg County

Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station vs. the national personnel distribution

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

14 Top 93% higher than 7% 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 42130 · Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station, SC 14 personnel · 5 stations

PERS-MICRO · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 14
  • STA-FEW 5 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #20,930
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lynd Fire Departm…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Lynd Fire Department / Lynd Ambulance Service, MN (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Spartanburg, SC
FDID
42130

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #403 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #20,930 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 44% below the state average
Stations
5
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

Spartanburg City Fire Department - Central Station is 1.2% of Spartanburg County roster mass

The county lists 51 departments totaling 1,144 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 27% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

35.71 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 14 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Lynd Fire Department / Lynd Ambulance Service, MN (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Arkwright Fire Department
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Campobello Fire Department
Campobello · other
Cherokee Springs Fire Department
Chesnee · volunteer
Chesnee Community Fire Department
Chesnee · volunteer
City of Landrum Fire Department
Landrum · volunteer
Converse Fire Department
Converse · volunteer
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Nationwide career peers near 14 personnel

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