Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBatavia Fire Department
Batavia, IL · Kane County. Batavia Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 68 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.
- 68
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Batavia Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 9%
- national personnel size
- +196%
- vs. Illinois average
- 2
- stations
- $1,094,315
- 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.
Batavia Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Batavia, IL (Kane County), with 2 stations and 68 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,025 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,094,315.
- National personnel rank #2,025 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #60 of 971
- 2.94 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 25 other listed departments in Kane County
Batavia Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
68 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 KA132 · Batavia Fire Department, IL 68 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 68
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #2,025
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Lake Travis…
- FEMA-MID $1.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: North Lake Travis Fire and Rescue, TX (+ 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 IL department.
- Batavia (this dept) 68
- High North Washington…, CO 68
- Near North Lake Travis…, TX 68
- Near Roxbury Volunteer, NY 68
- Near Lake Stevens, WA 68
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Batavia, IL
- County
- Kane County
- FDID
- KA132
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-03574 | $238,409 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FR-0014 | $855,906 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Batavia Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #60 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,025 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster fringe
Batavia Fire Department is 7.1% of Kane County roster mass
The county lists 34 departments totaling 963 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.94 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 68 roster).
Photo-finish peer: North Lake Travis Fire and Rescue, TX (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 68 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.