Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District

Darien, IL · Dupage County. Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 65 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.

65
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+183%
vs. Illinois average
3
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
44/100
Darien-Woodridge 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 C
21.7 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
65 personnel · 3 stations

Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District is a Career (Paid) department serving Darien, IL (Dupage County), with 3 stations and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,197 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,197 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #71 of 971
  • 4.62 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 31 other listed departments in Dupage County

Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

65 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 DD252 · Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District, IL 65 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 65
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #2,197
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ East Baldwin Fire…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: East Baldwin Fire Station, 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
Darien, IL
FDID
DD252

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #71 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,197 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 183% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District is 4.0% 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.

4.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 65 roster).

Photo-finish peer: East Baldwin Fire Station, ME (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 65 personnel

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