Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Cicero Fire Department

Cicero, IL · Cook County. Cicero Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 98 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.

98
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Cicero Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.

Top 4%
national personnel size
+326%
vs. Illinois average
3
stations
$1,406,351
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
65/100
Cicero 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
32.7 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 C
$14,351 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
98 personnel · 3 stations

Cicero Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Cicero, IL (Cook County), with 3 stations and 98 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #990 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,406,351.

  • National personnel rank #990 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #24 of 971
  • 3.06 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 128 other listed departments in Cook County

Cicero Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

98 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 CS321 · Cicero Fire Department, IL 98 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 98
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #990
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Atascocita Volunt…
  • FEMA-MID $1.4M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Atascocita Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services, 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
CAREER
Location
Cicero, IL
FDID
CS321

FEMA Grant History

$1.4M
Cumulative funding (FY2011–2022)
3
Awards
Year Award Amount
2022 EMW-2022-FG-03651 $996,718.9
2017 EMW-2017-FH-00553 $199,539.01
2011 EMW-2011-FP-0122 $210,093

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

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Cicero Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #24 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #990 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 326% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

Cicero Fire Department is 1.7% 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.

3.06 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 98 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Atascocita Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services, TX (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 98 personnel

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