Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderElgin Fire Department
Elgin, IL · Kane County. Elgin Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 6 stations and 122 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.
- 122
- Total personnel
- 6
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Elgin Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +430%
- vs. Illinois average
- 6
- 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.
Elgin Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Elgin, IL (Kane County), with 6 stations and 122 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #653 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #653 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #10 of 971
- 4.92 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 25 other listed departments in Kane County
Elgin Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
122 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 KA191 · Elgin Fire Department, IL 122 personnel · 6 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 122
- STA-MULTI 6 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #653
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Carroll County Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Carroll County Fire Department - Gamber Fire Company, MD (+ 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.
- Elgin (this dept) 122
- High Monarch Fire Prot…, MO 122
- Near Carroll County Fi…, MD 122
- Near East Haven, CT 122
- Near Waterloo Fire and…, IA 122
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Elgin, IL
- County
- Kane County
- FDID
- KA191
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Elgin Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #10 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #653 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 6
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Kane County
County mix is mostly volunteer (14 volunteer / 3 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
4.92 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (6 stations / 122 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Carroll County Fire Department - Gamber Fire Company, MD (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 122 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.