Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderDes Plaines Fire Department
Des Plaines, IL · Cook County. Des Plaines Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 129 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.
- 129
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Des Plaines Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +461%
- vs. Illinois average
- 3
- stations
- $360,000
- 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.
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.
Des Plaines Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Des Plaines, IL (Cook County), with 3 stations and 129 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #578 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $360,000.
- National personnel rank #578 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #9 of 971
- 2.33 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 128 other listed departments in Cook County
Des Plaines Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
129 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 CN161 · Des Plaines Fire Department, IL 129 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 129
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #578
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cherry Hill
- FEMA-LIGHT $360K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cherry Hill Fire Department, NJ (+ 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.
- Des Plaines (this dept) 129
- High Charlottesville, VA 129
- Near Cherry Hill, NJ 129
- Near Alpharetta Depart…, GA 129
- Near Milford, CT 129
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Des Plaines, IL
- County
- Cook County
- FDID
- CN161
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FV-0686 | $360,000 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Des Plaines Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #9 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #578 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster fringe
Des Plaines Fire Department is 2.2% 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.
2.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 129 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cherry Hill Fire Department, NJ (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 129 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.