Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Peoria Heights Volunteer Fire Department

Peoria Heights, IL · Peoria County. Peoria Heights Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 25 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.

25
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Peoria Heights Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount in line with the Illinois average.

38th pct.
national personnel size
+9%
vs. Illinois average
2
stations
$8,217,822
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
52/100
Peoria Heights Volunteer 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
12.5 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 A
$328,713 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
25 personnel · 2 stations

Peoria Heights Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Peoria Heights, IL (Peoria County), with 2 stations and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,817 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $8,217,822.

  • National personnel rank #13,817 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #640 of 971
  • 8.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 23 other listed departments in Peoria County

Peoria Heights Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

25 Top 62% higher than 38% 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 PA224 · Peoria Heights Volunteer Fire Department, IL 25 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 25
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #13,817
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alamo Heights Fir…
  • FEMA-HEAVY $8.2M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, 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
Peoria Heights, IL
FDID
PA224

FEMA Grant History

$8.2M
Cumulative funding (FY2015–2024)
6
Awards
Year Award Amount
2024 EMW-2024-FF-01015 $3,036,362.43
2024 EMW-2024-FG-03074 $259,714.28
2023 EMW-2023-FG-04946 $190,476.19
2021 EMW-2021-FF-00444 $4,091,208
2020 EMW-2020-FG-11992 $336,879
2015 EMW2014FO01855 $303,182

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

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Peoria Heights Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #640 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,817 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 9% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

Peoria Heights Volunteer Fire Department is 3.7% of Peoria County roster mass

The county lists 26 departments totaling 677 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 38% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

8.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 25 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Alamo Heights Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, TX (+0 personnel).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 25 personnel

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