Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station

Machesney Park, IL · Winnebago County. North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 61 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.

61
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.

Top 11%
national personnel size
+165%
vs. Illinois average
3
stations
$764,065
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
45/100
North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station

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
20.3 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 C
$12,526 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
61 personnel · 3 stations

North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station is a Volunteer department serving Machesney Park, IL (Winnebago County), with 3 stations and 61 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,520 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $764,065.

  • National personnel rank #2,520 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #98 of 971
  • 4.92 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Winnebago County

North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station vs. the national personnel distribution

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

61 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 WJ184 · North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station, IL 61 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 61
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #2,520
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brenham
  • FEMA-MID $764K
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Brenham Fire Department, TX (+ 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
Machesney Park, IL
FDID
WJ184

FEMA Grant History

$764K
Cumulative funding (FY2008–2018)
4
Awards
Year Award Amount
2018 EMW-2018-FO-05196 $294,802
2018 EMW-2018-FF-00127 $132,719.98
2011 EMW2010FV01631 $346,584
2008 EMW2007FF01002 $-10,041

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

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #98 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,520 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 165% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

North Park Fire Protection District - Wood Avenue Station is 9.9% of Winnebago County roster mass

The county lists 21 departments totaling 618 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 62% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

4.92 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 61 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Brenham Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 61 personnel

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