Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Bensenville Fire Protection District

Bensenville, IL · Dupage County. Bensenville Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 32 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.

32
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Bensenville Fire Protection District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Illinois average.

Top 40%
national personnel size
+39%
vs. Illinois 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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
25/100
Bensenville Fire Protection District

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 D
16 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
32 personnel · 2 stations

Bensenville Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Bensenville, IL (Dupage County), with 2 stations and 32 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,958 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,958 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #388 of 971
  • 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 31 other listed departments in Dupage County

Bensenville Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

32 Top 40% higher than 60% 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 DD182 · Bensenville Fire Protection District, IL 32 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 32
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,958
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Blue Volunteer
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Blue Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Bensenville, IL
FDID
DD182

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Bensenville Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #388 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,958 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 39% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

Bensenville Fire Protection District is 2.0% of Dupage County roster mass

The county lists 51 departments totaling 1,613 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 94% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 32 roster).

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

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

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Argonne Fire Department
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Bloomingdale Fire Protection District
Bloomingdale · career
Clarendon Hills Fire Department
Clarendon Hills · volunteer
Downers Grove Fire Department
Downers Grove · career
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Nationwide career peers near 32 personnel

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