Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District

Lockport, IL · Will County. Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 72 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.

72
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.

Top 8%
national personnel size
+213%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
51/100
Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District

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.

Staffing capacity C
24 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
72 personnel · 3 stations

Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District is a Career (Paid) department serving Lockport, IL (Will County), with 3 stations and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,802 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,802 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #50 of 971
  • 4.17 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 31 other listed departments in Will County

Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District 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 WG242 · Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District, IL 72 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 72
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,802
  • 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)

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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Lockport, IL
FDID
WG242

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #50 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,802 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 213% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

Lockport Township Fire and Ambulance District is 5.5% of Will County roster mass

The county lists 45 departments totaling 1,315 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 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).

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Nationwide career peers near 72 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.