Department profile

Volunteer

Brooklyn Fire Protection District

East Saint Louis, IL · St Clair County. Brooklyn Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

15
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
No
EMS service

The verdict

Brooklyn Fire Protection District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Illinois average.

11th pct.
national personnel size
-35%
vs. Illinois average
1
station

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
21/100
Brooklyn 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
15 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
Not an EMS-capable department (USFA registry)
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
15 personnel · 1 station

Brooklyn Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving East Saint Louis, IL (St Clair County), with 1 station and 15 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,998 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #19,998 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #911 of 971
  • 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • 41 other listed departments in St Clair County

Brooklyn Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

15 Top 89% higher than 11% 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 SG153 · Brooklyn Fire Protection District, IL 15 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 15
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-N No EMS flag
  • RANK-LOWER #19,998
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alta Vista City
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Alta Vista City Fire Department, KS (+ 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
East Saint Louis, IL
FDID
SG153

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Brooklyn Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #911 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,998 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 35% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

Brooklyn Fire Protection District is 1.5% of St Clair County roster mass

The county lists 47 departments totaling 985 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 9% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 15 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Alta Vista City Fire Department, KS (+0 personnel).

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

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