Department profile
VolunteerScales Mound Fire Department
Scales Mound, IL · Jo Daviess County. Scales Mound Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 55 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 55
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Scales Mound Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 14%
- national personnel size
- +139%
- vs. Illinois average
- 3
- 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.
Scales Mound Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Scales Mound, IL (Jo Daviess County), with 3 stations and 55 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,251 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,251 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #123 of 971
- 5.45 stations per 100 personnel
- 9 other listed departments in Jo Daviess County
Scales Mound Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
55 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 JE183 · Scales Mound Fire Department, IL 55 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 55
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #3,251
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Belton Fire Depar…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Belton Fire Department / 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.
- Scales Mound (this dept) 55
- High Brunswick Fire De…, ME 55
- Near Belton Fire Depar…, TX 55
- Near Boerne Volunteer, TX 55
- Near Boothbay Volunteer, ME 55
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Scales Mound, IL
- County
- Jo Daviess County
- FDID
- JE183
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Scales Mound Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #123 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,251 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster geometry
Jo Daviess County HIFLD mix around Scales Mound Fire Department
Jo Daviess County: 12 departments, 274 personnel (8 volunteer / 0 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 0% of departments. County / state rollup.
5.45 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 55 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Belton Fire Department / Emergency Medical Services, TX (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 55 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.