Department profile
Career (Paid)Peoria Fire Department Fire Central
Peoria, IL · Peoria County. Peoria Fire Department Fire Central is a Career (Paid) department, 12 stations and 211 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 211
- Total personnel
- 12
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Peoria Fire Department Fire Central pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 1%
- national personnel size
- +817%
- vs. Illinois average
- 12
- 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.
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.
Peoria Fire Department Fire Central is a Career (Paid) department serving Peoria, IL (Peoria County), with 12 stations and 211 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #206 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #206 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #4 of 971
- 5.69 stations per 100 personnel
- 23 other listed departments in Peoria County
Peoria Fire Department Fire Central vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
211 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 PA111 · Peoria Fire Department Fire Central, IL 211 personnel · 12 stations
PERS-LARGE · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-LARGE 211
- STA-MULTI 12 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #206
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sandy Spring Volu…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire Department, MD ( -1 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.
- High Wilmington, NC 212
- Near High Point, NC 212
- Peoria Fire Depar… (this dept) 211
- Low Sandy Spring Volu…, MD 210
- Near Asheville Fire an…, NC 210
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Peoria, IL
- County
- Peoria County
- FDID
- PA111
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Peoria Fire Department Fire Central's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #4 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #206 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 12
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster weight
Peoria Fire Department Fire Central carries 31.2% of Peoria County HIFLD personnel
Among 26 listed departments (677 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 46% of the county count. County / state rollup.
5.69 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (12 stations / 211 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire Department, MD (-1 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 211 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.