Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Mount Pulaski Fire Protection District

Mount Pulaski, IL · Logan County. Mount Pulaski Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 58 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.

58
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Mount Pulaski Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.

Top 13%
national personnel size
+152%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
36/100
Mount Pulaski Fire Protection 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 D
19.3 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
58 personnel · 3 stations

Mount Pulaski Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Mount Pulaski, IL (Logan County), with 3 stations and 58 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,844 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,844 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #105 of 971
  • 5.17 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 13 other listed departments in Logan County

Mount Pulaski Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

58 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 LF254 · Mount Pulaski Fire Protection District, IL 58 personnel · 3 stations

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

  • PERS-MID 58
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,844
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hayes Crossing-Ha…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Hayes Crossing-Haldeman Volunteer Fire Department, KY (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer 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
VOLUNTEER
Location
Mount Pulaski, IL
FDID
LF254

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Mount Pulaski Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #105 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,844 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 152% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster geometry

Logan County HIFLD mix around Mount Pulaski Fire Protection District

Logan County: 14 departments, 256 personnel (8 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 43% of departments. County / state rollup.

5.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 58 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Hayes Crossing-Haldeman Volunteer Fire Department, KY (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 58 personnel

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