Department profile
VolunteerGlen Carbon Fire Department
Glen Carbon, IL · Madison County. Glen Carbon Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 72 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 72
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Glen Carbon Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +213%
- 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.
Glen Carbon Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Glen Carbon, IL (Madison County), with 1 station and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,798 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,798 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #49 of 971
- 1.39 stations per 100 personnel
- 40 other listed departments in Madison County
Glen Carbon Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
72 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 MC313 · Glen Carbon Fire Department, IL 72 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 72
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,798
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Town of Mount Ple…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Town of Mount Pleasant, SC (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer 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.
- Glen Carbon (this dept) 72
- High Osage Beach Fire…, MO 72
- Near Town of Mount Ple…, SC 72
- Near Mukilteo, WA 72
- Near North Bend Fire, OR 72
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Glen Carbon, IL
- County
- Madison County
- FDID
- MC313
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Glen Carbon Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #49 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,798 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
Glen Carbon Fire Department is 5.9% of Madison County roster mass
The county lists 47 departments totaling 1,214 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 40% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.39 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 72 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Town of Mount Pleasant, SC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.