Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderMcCook 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.
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.
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.
- McCook (this dept) 11
- High Butler Volunteer, TX 11
- Near 156th Cuerpo Emer…, PR 11
- Near Bisbee, AZ 11
- Near Bowman Volunteer, TX 11
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Mccook, IL
- County
- Cook County
- FDID
- CS612
FEMA Grant History
| 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 11 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.