Department profile
VolunteerWindy Hill Volunteer Fire Company
Florence, SC · Florence County. Windy Hill Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 5 stations and 13 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 13
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Windy Hill Volunteer Fire Company pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.
- 5th pct.
- national personnel size
- -48%
- 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.
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.
Windy Hill Volunteer Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Florence, SC (Florence County), with 5 stations and 13 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,253 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #21,253 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #414 of 473
- 38.46 stations per 100 personnel
- 12 other listed departments in Florence County
Windy Hill Volunteer Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
13 Top 95% higher than 5% 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 21210 · Windy Hill Volunteer Fire Company, SC 13 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MICRO · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 13
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #21,253
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sand Point Depart…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sand Point Department of Public Safety - Fire Division, AK (+ 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 SC department.
- Windy Hill Volunt… (this dept) 13
- High Lakewood Volunteer, WV 13
- Near Sand Point Depart…, AK 13
- Near Watson Volunteer, AR 13
- Near Crow Agency, MT 13
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Florence, SC
- County
- Florence County
- FDID
- 21210
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Windy Hill Volunteer Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #414 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,253 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Windy Hill Volunteer Fire Company is 2.9% of Florence County roster mass
The county lists 20 departments totaling 456 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 30% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
38.46 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 13 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sand Point Department of Public Safety - Fire Division, AK (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 13 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.