Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderHillside Fire Department
Hillside, IL · Cook County. Hillside Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 25 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.
- 25
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Hillside Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Illinois average.
- 40th pct.
- national personnel size
- +9%
- vs. Illinois average
- 1
- station
- $4,786,980
- 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.
Hillside Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Hillside, IL (Cook County), with 1 station and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,506 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $4,786,980.
- National personnel rank #13,506 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #620 of 971
- 4.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 128 other listed departments in Cook County
Hillside Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
25 Top 60% higher than 40% 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 CS462 · Hillside Fire Department, IL 25 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 25
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #13,506
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alamo Heights Fir…
- FEMA-MID $4.8M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, 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.
- Hillside (this dept) 25
- High Alto, TX 25
- Near Alamo Heights Fir…, TX 25
- Near Albion, ME 25
- Near Alligator Fire Di…, SC 25
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Hillside, IL
- County
- Cook County
- FDID
- CS462
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FF-01122 | $1,175,875.88 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-00997 | $678,969.89 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FF-00360 | $1,430,820 |
| 2014 | EMW2013FH00578 | $1,501,314 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Hillside Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #620 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,506 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
Hillside Fire Department is 0.4% of Cook County roster mass
The county lists 181 departments totaling 5,736 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 25 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, TX (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 25 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.