North Carolina - Fire Service Personnel

Fire Service Personnel Information for North Carolina

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North Carolina Fire Department Personnel

Personnel (fire department membership) numbers vary by region, by state and even by county. Recruiting is critical to fire department success, see National Volunteer Fire Council's Make Me a Firefighter and National Volunteer Fire Council's Recruiting Resources. Check out how your department’s numbers compare to those around you, to see how your recruitment and retention investments are fairing.

This information is based solely upon fire departments that have registered with the National Fire Service Registry. If you have not registered your fire department, please do so, it is free and contributes to a complete picture of the fire services. Check out some Quick Facts from the registry.

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Department Type

NOTE: In the USFA National Fire Service Registry data for North Carolina there are 13 departments NOT classified, and so NOT included in these statistics. Departments should register as Career, Mostly Career, Volunteer or Mostly Volunteer but we do not have it for these 13 departments .

Volunteer Departments of North Carolina

Here are the average numbers of volunteer firefighters for each county within North Carolina, as well as the maximum and minimum numbers for that county.

County # Volunteer Departments Average Firefighters Highest # Lowest #
Alamance 10 39 59 27
Alexander 5 36 51 25
Alleghany 6 29 52 20
Anson 5 38 52 25
Ashe 8 27 36 15
Avery 11 31 39 21
Beaufort 11 31 44 25
Bertie 10 26 36 18
Bladen 11 27 46 20
Brunswick 17 32 47 18
Buncombe 10 44 108 29
Burke 17 32 58 18
Cabarrus 11 42 70 22
Caldwell 14 35 46 15
Camden 2 34 45 23
Carteret 14 33 57 17
Caswell 8 29 41 25
Catawba 10 38 55 25
Chatham 6 38 55 29
Cherokee 13 29 44 18
Chowan 2 35 36 34
Clay 4 29 34 25
Cleveland 15 35 46 22
Columbus 15 30 39 22
Craven 10 46 64 24
Cumberland 17 46 96 23
Currituck 4 38 54 23
Dare 11 31 50 15
Davidson 21 37 64 -
Davie 11 33 52 26
Duplin 19 32 44 21
Durham 3 45 52 35
Edgecombe 7 28 37 19
Forsyth 18 40 65 25
Franklin 7 40 65 27
Gaston 22 33 47 20
Gates 5 28 35 24
Graham 2 61 96 25
Granville 11 30 46 25
Greene 12 29 36 26
Guilford 16 41 70 24
Halifax 9 26 36 20
Harnett 12 37 53 17
Haywood 14 30 38 22
Henderson 9 44 63 28
Hertford 9 46 226 18
Hoke 6 30 44 20
Hyde 5 24 32 15
Iredell 13 42 59 31
Jackson 7 37 52 22
Johnston 19 36 76 25
Jones 7 28 40 23
Lee 6 32 40 23
Lenoir 8 42 62 26
Lincoln 8 36 47 28
Macon 9 30 40 14
Madison 7 24 30 20
Martin 5 38 49 25
McDowell 8 30 36 25
Mecklenburg 11 56 190 26
Mitchell 4 27 31 22
Montgomery 9 27 32 21
Moore 18 38 77 23
Nash 14 31 47 5
New Hanover 2 30 37 22
Northampton 8 29 36 24
Onslow 14 31 52 21
Orange 5 38 43 31
Pamlico 8 23 30 20
Pasquotank 4 31 35 28
Pender 10 54 222 20
Perquimans 4 30 34 25
Person 6 34 56 22
Pitt 20 37 51 19
Polk 6 36 41 32
Randolph 15 28 45 8
Richmond 6 33 53 22
Robeson 19 27 37 18
Rockingham 17 32 68 19
Rowan 23 32 55 7
Rutherford 16 29 41 19
Sampson 11 32 46 25
Scotland 6 27 35 23
Stanly 12 40 50 27
Stokes 10 32 45 27
Surry 17 32 45 20
Swain 3 27 37 17
Transylvania 7 34 41 22
Tyrrell 1 64 - -
Union 17 42 97 22
Vance 6 31 63 18
Wake 12 63 107 32
Warren 9 28 40 19
Washington 4 27 29 25
Watauga 9 31 39 24
Wayne 18 31 50 20
Wilkes 18 29 37 19
Wilson 8 27 33 23
Yadkin 11 36 54 10
Yancey 6 27 33 20
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Career Departments of North Carolina

Here are the average numbers of career firefighters for each county within North Carolina, as well as the maximum and minimum numbers for that county.

County # Career Departments Average Firefighters Highest # Lowest #
Alamance 3 61 90 41
Beaufort 2 50 52 48
Brunswick 7 30 43 20
Buncombe 11 58 273 22
Burke 1 90 - -
Cabarrus 3 200 288 91
Caldwell 3 50 66 21
Carteret 5 38 65 26
Catawba 4 61 139 20
Chatham 1 37 - -
Cleveland 2 59 63 54
Craven 3 56 81 42
Cumberland 4 132 345 42
Currituck 1 144 - -
Dare 2 33 37 29
Davidson 2 57 61 52
Durham 3 154 338 51
Edgecombe 2 85 144 26
Forsyth 4 209 377 28
Gaston 3 104 142 31
Granville 1 47 - -
Guilford 6 145 441 17
Halifax 1 31 - -
Harnett 1 34 - -
Henderson 2 43 47 38
Iredell 3 76 104 51
Johnston 2 72 90 54
Lee 1 53 - -
Lenoir 1 50 - -
Lincoln 2 50 58 42
Mecklenburg 3 376 1056 29
Moore 2 43 47 38
New Hanover 3 140 209 27
Onslow 5 61 157 7
Orange 3 52 92 29
Pasquotank 2 34 45 23
Person 1 37 - -
Pitt 1 168 - -
Randolph 3 61 68 52
Robeson 1 55 - -
Rockingham 1 38 - -
Rowan 2 38 62 14
Rutherford 1 29 - -
Sampson 1 36 - -
Stanly 1 44 - -
Stokes 1 39 - -
Union 2 70 90 50
Vance 2 42 52 31
Wake 11 126 553 25
Watauga 1 45 - -
Wayne 2 83 84 82
Wilson 2 50 96 4

Department Types of North Carolina

Here are the department types by county for volunteer and career agencies in for North Carolina.

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Here are the fire department identifiers (FDIDs) for agencies within North Carolina. NFIRS FDIDs are required for submitting NFIRS reports with mutual aid or automatic aid with those departments.

 
 
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