Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGurnee Fire Department
Gurnee, IL · Lake County. Gurnee Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 62 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.
- 62
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Gurnee Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- +170%
- vs. Illinois average
- 2
- stations
- $1,997,326
- 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.
Gurnee Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Gurnee, IL (Lake County), with 2 stations and 62 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,437 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,997,326.
- National personnel rank #2,437 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #89 of 971
- 3.23 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 37 other listed departments in Lake County
Gurnee Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
62 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 LA172 · Gurnee Fire Department, IL 62 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 62
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,437
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cedar Park
- FEMA-MID $2.0M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Cedar Park 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.
- Gurnee (this dept) 62
- High Seguin Fire/Emerg…, TX 62
- Near Cedar Park, TX 62
- Near Mission Fire Depa…, TX 62
- Near Niagara Falls Air…, NY 62
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Gurnee, IL
- County
- Lake County
- FDID
- LA172
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00282 | $1,140,943.1 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FV00175 | $386,364 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FO05151 | $229,469 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0497 | $240,550 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Gurnee Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #89 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,437 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster fringe
Gurnee Fire Department is 4.2% of Lake County roster mass
The county lists 50 departments totaling 1,482 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.23 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 62 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Cedar Park Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 62 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.