Department profile
Career (Paid)Paris Fire Department
Paris, IL · Edgar County. Paris Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 16 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 16
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Paris Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the Illinois average.
- 12th pct.
- national personnel size
- -30%
- vs. Illinois average
- 1
- station
- $1,004,070
- 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.
Paris Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Paris, IL (Edgar County), with 1 station and 16 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,756 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,004,070.
- National personnel rank #19,756 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #904 of 971
- 6.25 stations per 100 personnel
- 9 other listed departments in Edgar County
Paris Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
16 Top 88% higher than 12% 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 EA181 · Paris Fire Department, IL 16 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 16
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-LOWER #19,756
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 79 East Volunteer
- FEMA-MID $1.0M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: 79 East Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 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.
- Paris (this dept) 16
- High Baldwin City, KS 16
- Near 79 East Volunteer, TX 16
- Near Alden, KS 16
- Near Alma, KS 16
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Paris, IL
- County
- Edgar County
- FDID
- EA181
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-06638 | $455,619.04 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0100 | $293,338 |
| 2010 | EMW-2010-FO-0686 | $255,113 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Paris Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #904 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,756 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County staffing outlier
Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Edgar County
County mix is mostly volunteer (5 volunteer / 1 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.
6.25 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 16 roster).
Photo-finish peer: 79 East Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 16 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.