Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Brookfield Fire Department

Brookfield, IL · Cook County. Brookfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 33 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.

33
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Brookfield Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Illinois average.

Top 38%
national personnel size
+43%
vs. Illinois average
2
stations
$1,140,876
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
27/100
Brookfield Fire Department

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
16.5 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
33 personnel · 2 stations

Brookfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Brookfield, IL (Cook County), with 2 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,600 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,140,876.

  • National personnel rank #8,600 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #365 of 971
  • 6.06 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 128 other listed departments in Cook County

Brookfield Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

33 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 CS242 · Brookfield Fire Department, IL 33 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 33
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,600
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bar Harbor Ambula…
  • FEMA-MID $1.1M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bar Harbor Ambulance, ME (+ 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
Brookfield, IL
FDID
CS242

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2020–2021)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2021 EMW-2021-FF-01310 $378,970.87
2020 EMW-2020-FG-14061 $761,904.76

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Brookfield Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #365 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,600 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 43% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

Brookfield Fire Department is 0.6% of Cook County roster mass

The county lists 181 departments totaling 5,736 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.06 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 33 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bar Harbor Ambulance, ME (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel

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