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West Chester Fire Department

Chester, SC · Chester County. West Chester Fire Department is a fire department and 22 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

22
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

West Chester Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the South Carolina average.

28th pct.
national personnel size
-12%
vs. South Carolina average

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
0/100
West Chester 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
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
22 personnel

West Chester Fire Department is a fire department serving Chester, SC (Chester County) and 22 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #16,067 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #16,067 of 22,440
  • SC personnel rank #286 of 473
  • 8 other listed departments in Chester County

West Chester Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

22 Top 72% higher than 28% 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-WEST-CHESTER-FIRE-DEPARTMENT-SC · West Chester Fire Department, SC 22 personnel

PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 22
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #16,067
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ables Springs Vol…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 2/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Ables Springs Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
Location
Chester, SC

Staffing vs the South Carolina average

How West Chester Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #286 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #16,067 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 12% below the state average
Stations
Not reported
State fire deaths/yr
75
SC departments
689

County roster fringe

West Chester Fire Department is 8.8% of Chester County roster mass

The county lists 15 departments totaling 249 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 0% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

Photo-finish peer: Ables Springs Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Fort Lawn Volunteer Fire Department
Fort Lawn · volunteer
Great Falls Fire Department
Great Falls · volunteer
Leeds Fire Department
Carlisle · other
Lewis Fire Department
Chester · other
North Chester Fire Department
Chester · volunteer
Richburg Fire Department
Richburg · volunteer
Rossville Fire Department
Richburg · volunteer
South Chester Fire Department
Blackstock · volunteer
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Nationwide departments near 22 personnel

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