Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderTown of Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, SC · Charleston County. Town of Mount Pleasant is a fire department and 72 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.
- 72
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Town of Mount Pleasant pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the South Carolina average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +188%
- vs. South Carolina average
- $705,185
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
Town of Mount Pleasant is a fire department serving Mount Pleasant, SC (Charleston County) and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,822 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $705,185.
- National personnel rank #1,822 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #24 of 473
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 18 other listed departments in Charleston County
Town of Mount Pleasant vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
72 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 SC-TOWN-OF-MOUNT-PLEASANT-SC · Town of Mount Pleasant, SC 72 personnel
PERS-MID · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-PART
- PERS-MID 72
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,822
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Glen Carbon
- FEMA-MID $705K
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Glen Carbon Fire Department, IL (+ 0 personnel)
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.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every SC department.
- Town of Mount Ple… (this dept) 72
- High Mukilteo, WA 72
- Near Glen Carbon, IL 72
- Near Lockport Township…, IL 72
- Near Oak Park, IL 72
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Mount Pleasant, SC
- County
- Charleston County
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FH-00147 | $484,239.46 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-02241 | $220,946 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Town of Mount Pleasant's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #24 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,822 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Town of Mount Pleasant is 6.4% of Charleston County roster mass
The county lists 24 departments totaling 1,130 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Glen Carbon Fire Department, IL (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.