Department profile
Career (Paid)Skokie Fire Department
Skokie, IL · Cook County. Skokie Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 120 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 120
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Skokie Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +422%
- vs. Illinois average
- 3
- stations
- $2,759,536
- 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.
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.
Skokie Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Skokie, IL (Cook County), with 3 stations and 120 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #681 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $2,759,536.
- National personnel rank #681 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #11 of 971
- 2.50 stations per 100 personnel
- 128 other listed departments in Cook County
Skokie Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
120 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 CN121 · Skokie Fire Department, IL 120 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 120
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #681
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Community Volunte…
- FEMA-MID $2.8M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Community Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+ 0 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.
- Skokie (this dept) 120
- High Cheadle Fire Dist…, MT 120
- Near Community Volunte…, TX 120
- Near Community Fire Co…, MD 120
- Near Gerry Volunteer F…, NY 120
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Skokie, IL
- County
- Cook County
- FDID
- CN121
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | EMW-2022-FG-00357 | $181,745.45 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-00527 | $1,282,686 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-01880 | $372,081.81 |
| 2013 | EMW2012FH00268 | $660,463 |
| 2011 | EMW-2011-FO-0626 | $262,560 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Skokie Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #11 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #681 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 fringe
Skokie Fire Department is 2.1% of Cook County roster mass
The county lists 181 departments totaling 5,736 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.50 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 120 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Community Volunteer Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 120 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.