Department profile
Career (Paid)Dowell Volunteer Fire Department
Dowell, IL · Jackson County. Dowell Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 19 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 19
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Dowell Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Illinois average.
- 20th pct.
- national personnel size
- -17%
- 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.
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.
Dowell Volunteer Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Dowell, IL (Jackson County), with 1 station and 19 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,947 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #17,947 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #837 of 971
- 5.26 stations per 100 personnel
- 12 other listed departments in Jackson County
Dowell Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
19 Top 80% higher than 20% 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 JA164 · Dowell Volunteer Fire Department, IL 19 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 19
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #17,947
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alton Volunteer
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Alton Volunteer Fire Department, 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.
- Dowell Volunteer (this dept) 19
- High Browning Volunteer, KY 19
- Near Alton Volunteer, TX 19
- Near Alvarado Volunteer, TX 19
- Near Ashland Rural, KS 19
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Dowell, IL
- County
- Jackson County
- FDID
- JA164
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Dowell Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #837 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,947 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster fringe
Dowell Volunteer Fire Department is 7.1% of Jackson County roster mass
The county lists 17 departments totaling 267 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 12% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.26 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 19 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Alton Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 19 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.