Department profile
Career (Paid)East Moline Fire Department
East Moline, IL · Rock Island County. East Moline Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 36 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 36
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
East Moline Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Illinois average.
- Top 32%
- national personnel size
- +57%
- 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.
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.
East Moline Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving East Moline, IL (Rock Island County), with 3 stations and 36 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #7,278 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #7,278 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #300 of 971
- 8.33 stations per 100 personnel
- 20 other listed departments in Rock Island County
East Moline Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
36 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 RC201 · East Moline Fire Department, IL 36 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 36
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #7,278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bellaire
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Bellaire 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.
- East Moline (this dept) 36
- High Bowie Fire Depart…, TX 36
- Near Bellaire, TX 36
- Near Bingham Volunteer, ME 36
- Near Bleiblerville Vol…, TX 36
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- East Moline, IL
- County
- Rock Island County
- FDID
- RC201
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How East Moline Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #300 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #7,278 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
East Moline Fire Department is 6.8% of Rock Island County roster mass
The county lists 23 departments totaling 531 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 26% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
8.33 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 36 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Bellaire Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 36 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.