Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderRutland Dundee Fire Protection District
Gilberts, IL · Kane County. Rutland Dundee Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 43 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.
- 43
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Rutland Dundee Fire Protection District pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Illinois average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +87%
- vs. Illinois average
- 2
- 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.
Rutland Dundee Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Gilberts, IL (Kane County), with 2 stations and 43 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,376 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,376 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #219 of 971
- 4.65 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 25 other listed departments in Kane County
Rutland Dundee Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
43 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 KA313 · Rutland Dundee Fire Protection District, IL 43 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 43
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #5,376
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Barnwell
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Barnwell Fire Department, SC (+ 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.
- Rutland Dundee Fi… (this dept) 43
- High Fort Gordon Fire…, GA 43
- Near Barnwell, SC 43
- Near Cedar Hill, TX 43
- Near Elmwood Volunteer, TX 43
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Gilberts, IL
- County
- Kane County
- FDID
- KA313
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Rutland Dundee Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #219 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,376 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster fringe
Rutland Dundee Fire Protection District is 4.5% of Kane County roster mass
The county lists 34 departments totaling 963 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 88% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.65 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 43 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Barnwell Fire Department, SC (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 43 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.