Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOak Park Fire Department
Oak Park, IL · Cook County. Oak Park Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 72 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.
- 72
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Oak Park Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +213%
- vs. Illinois average
- 3
- stations
- $249,821
- 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.
Oak Park Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Oak Park, IL (Cook County), with 3 stations and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,809 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $249,821.
- National personnel rank #1,809 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #51 of 971
- 4.17 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 128 other listed departments in Cook County
Oak Park Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
72 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 CS691 · Oak Park Fire Department, IL 72 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-LIGHT · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 72
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,809
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Town of Mount Ple…
- FEMA-LIGHT $250K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Town of Mount Pleasant, SC (+ 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.
- Oak Park (this dept) 72
- High Osage Beach Fire…, MO 72
- Near Town of Mount Ple…, SC 72
- Near Mukilteo, WA 72
- Near North Bend Fire, OR 72
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Oak Park, IL
- County
- Cook County
- FDID
- CS691
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-03732 | $268,160 |
| 2010 | EMW2009FH01332 | $-18,339 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Oak Park Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #51 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,809 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster fringe
Oak Park Fire Department is 1.3% 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.
4.17 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 72 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Town of Mount Pleasant, SC (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.