Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderPilot-Herscher Township Fire Protection District
Herscher, IL · Kankakee County. Pilot-Herscher Township Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 5 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.
- 5
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Pilot-Herscher Township Fire Protection District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Illinois average.
- 0th pct.
- national personnel size
- -78%
- vs. Illinois average
- 1
- station
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.
Pilot-Herscher Township Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Herscher, IL (Kankakee County), with 1 station and 5 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,385 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,385 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #970 of 971
- 20.00 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 15 other listed departments in Kankakee County
Pilot-Herscher Township Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
5 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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 KB282 · Pilot-Herscher Township Fire Protection District, IL 5 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 5
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #22,385
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Arizona State Pri…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Arizona State Prison Complex Fire Brigade - Perryville, AZ (+ 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.
- Pilot-Herscher To… (this dept) 5
- High Cherry Volunteer, AZ 5
- Near Arizona State Pri…, AZ 5
- Near Beddington Volunt…, ME 5
- Near Byers Fire Depart…, KS 5
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Herscher, IL
- County
- Kankakee County
- FDID
- KB282
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Pilot-Herscher Township Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #970 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,385 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster fringe
Pilot-Herscher Township Fire Protection District is 1.2% of Kankakee County roster mass
The county lists 19 departments totaling 416 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 68% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
20.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 5 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Arizona State Prison Complex Fire Brigade - Perryville, AZ (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 5 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.