Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Tampico Rural Fire Protection District

Tampico, IL · Whiteside County. Tampico Rural Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 34 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.

34
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tampico Rural Fire Protection District pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Illinois average.

Top 38%
national personnel size
+48%
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
28/100
Tampico Rural Fire Protection District

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 D
17 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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
34 personnel · 2 stations

Tampico Rural Fire Protection District is a Volunteer department serving Tampico, IL (Whiteside County), with 2 stations and 34 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,519 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #8,519 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #360 of 971
  • 5.88 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 9 other listed departments in Whiteside County

Tampico Rural Fire Protection District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

34 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 WF204 · Tampico Rural Fire Protection District, IL 34 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 34
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #8,519
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ 162 Fighter Wing…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: 162 Fighter Wing Fire Department-Dod, 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.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Tampico, IL
FDID
WF204

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How Tampico Rural Fire Protection District's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #360 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,519 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 48% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster geometry

Whiteside County HIFLD mix around Tampico Rural Fire Protection District

Whiteside County: 11 departments, 315 personnel (6 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 55% of departments. County / state rollup.

5.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 34 roster).

Photo-finish peer: 162 Fighter Wing Fire Department-Dod, AZ (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 34 personnel

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