Department profile
VolunteerSwepsonville Volunteer Fire Department
Graham, NC · Alamance County. Swepsonville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 73 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 73
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Swepsonville Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the North Carolina average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +181%
- vs. North Carolina average
- 2
- 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.
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.
Swepsonville Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Graham, NC (Alamance County), with 2 stations and 73 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,779 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,779 of 22,440
- NC personnel rank #48 of 932
- 2.74 stations per 100 personnel
- 13 other listed departments in Alamance County
Swepsonville Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
73 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 00112 · Swepsonville Volunteer Fire Department, NC 73 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 73
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,779
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Edinburg Voluntee…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Edinburg Volunteer Fire Department - Central Station, TX (+ 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.
- Swepsonville Volu… (this dept) 73
- High Lincoln Fire Prot…, IL 73
- Near Edinburg Voluntee…, TX 73
- Near Fort Wainwright F…, AK 73
- Near Knoxville Communi…, IL 73
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Graham, NC
- County
- Alamance County
- FDID
- 00112
Staffing vs the North Carolina average
How Swepsonville Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in North Carolina. In-state it ranks #48 of 932 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,779 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 131
- NC departments
- 1,534
County roster geometry
Alamance County HIFLD mix around Swepsonville Volunteer Fire Department
Alamance County: 21 departments, 586 personnel (11 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 52% of departments. County / state rollup.
2.74 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 73 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Edinburg Volunteer Fire Department - Central Station, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 73 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NC department.