Department profile
VolunteerWoodruff Fire Department
Woodruff, SC · Spartanburg County. Woodruff Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 20 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 20
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Woodruff Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the South Carolina average.
- 20th pct.
- national personnel size
- -20%
- vs. South 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.
Woodruff Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Woodruff, SC (Spartanburg County), with 2 stations and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,841 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #17,841 of 22,440
- SC personnel rank #328 of 473
- 10.00 stations per 100 personnel
- 41 other listed departments in Spartanburg County
Woodruff Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
20 Top 80% higher than 20% 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 42336 · Woodruff Fire Department, SC 20 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 20
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #17,841
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mayfield Graves C…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mayfield Graves County Fire Department and Rescue Squad, KY (+ 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.
- Woodruff (this dept) 20
- High Coalton Volunteer, WV 20
- Near Mayfield Graves C…, KY 20
- Near Ghent, MN 20
- Near Harman Volunteer, WV 20
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Woodruff, SC
- County
- Spartanburg County
- FDID
- 42336
Staffing vs the South Carolina average
How Woodruff Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in South Carolina. In-state it ranks #328 of 473 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,841 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 75
- SC departments
- 689
County roster fringe
Woodruff Fire Department is 1.7% 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.
10.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 20 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mayfield Graves County Fire Department and Rescue Squad, KY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 20 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every SC department.