Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Mount Vernon City Fire Department

Mount Vernon, IL · Jefferson County. Mount Vernon City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 33 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.

33
Total personnel
4
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Mount Vernon City Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Illinois average.

Top 39%
national personnel size
+43%
vs. Illinois average
4
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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
7/100
Mount Vernon City 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
8.3 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
33 personnel · 4 stations

Mount Vernon City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Mount Vernon, IL (Jefferson County), with 4 stations and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,796 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,796 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #379 of 971
  • 12.12 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 7 other listed departments in Jefferson County

Mount Vernon City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 JC151 · Mount Vernon City Fire Department, IL 33 personnel · 4 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 33
  • STA-FEW 4 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,796
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bar Harbor Ambula…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Bar Harbor Ambulance, ME (+ 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
CAREER
Location
Mount Vernon, IL
FDID
JC151

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Mount Vernon City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #379 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,796 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 43% above the state average
Stations
4
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster weight

Mount Vernon City Fire Department carries 26.2% of Jefferson County HIFLD personnel

Among 8 listed departments (126 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 50% of the county count. County / state rollup.

12.12 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 33 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Bar Harbor Ambulance, ME (+0 personnel).

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

Nearby Departments

Belle Rive Fire Department
Belle Rive · volunteer
Jefferson Fire Protection District
Mount Vernon · volunteer
Mount Vernon Fire Department
Mount Vernon · other
Waltonville Fire Protection District
Waltonville · volunteer
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Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel

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