Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

McCook Fire Department

Mccook, IL · Cook County. McCook Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 11 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.

11
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

McCook Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Illinois average.

3rd pct.
national personnel size
-52%
vs. Illinois average
1
station
$568,263
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
46/100
McCook Fire Department

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 F
11 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 A
$51,660 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
11 personnel · 1 station

McCook Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Mccook, IL (Cook County), with 1 station and 11 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #21,745 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $568,263.

  • National personnel rank #21,745 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #959 of 971
  • 9.09 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 128 other listed departments in Cook County

McCook Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

11 Top 97% higher than 3% 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 CS612 · McCook Fire Department, IL 11 personnel · 1 station

PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 11
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #21,745
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 156th Cuerpo Emer…
  • FEMA-MID $568K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: 156th Cuerpo Emergencias Servicios Fire Department, PR (+ 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
Mccook, IL
FDID
CS612

FEMA Grant History

$568K
Cumulative funding (FY2019–2023)
3
Awards
Year Award Amount
2023 EMW-2023-FG-00045 $217,714.28
2022 EMW-2022-FG-00385 $181,596.22
2019 EMW-2019-FG-00223 $168,952

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How McCook Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #959 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #21,745 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 52% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

McCook Fire Department is 0.2% 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.

9.09 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 11 roster).

Photo-finish peer: 156th Cuerpo Emergencias Servicios Fire Department, PR (+0 personnel).

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Nationwide career peers near 11 personnel

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