Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Burbank Fire Department

Burbank, IL · Cook County. Burbank Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 62 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.

62
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Burbank Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.

Top 11%
national personnel size
+170%
vs. Illinois average
2
stations
$1,520,992
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.

B
PlainFireData Composite Score
71/100
Burbank 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 B
31 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 B
$24,532 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
62 personnel · 2 stations

Burbank Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Burbank, IL (Cook County), with 2 stations and 62 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,418 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,520,992.

  • National personnel rank #2,418 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #87 of 971
  • 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 128 other listed departments in Cook County

Burbank Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

62 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 CS252 · Burbank Fire Department, IL 62 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 62
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,418
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cedar Park
  • FEMA-MID $1.5M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cedar Park Fire Department, 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
Burbank, IL
FDID
CS252

FEMA Grant History

$1.5M
Cumulative funding (FY2005–2020)
4
Awards
Year Award Amount
2020 EMW-2020-FG-02760 $212,445
2017 EMW2016FR00473 $861,280
2016 EMW2015FO00827 $218,773
2005 EMW-2005-FG-0193 $228,494

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

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Burbank Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #87 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,418 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 170% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

Burbank Fire Department is 1.1% 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.

3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 62 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Cedar Park Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 62 personnel

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