Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderWaukegan Fire Department
Waukegan, IL · Lake County. Waukegan Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 117 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.
- 117
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Waukegan Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.
- Top 3%
- national personnel size
- +409%
- vs. Illinois average
- 5
- 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.
Waukegan Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Waukegan, IL (Lake County), with 5 stations and 117 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #712 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #712 of 22,440
- IL personnel rank #13 of 971
- 4.27 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 37 other listed departments in Lake County
Waukegan Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
117 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 LA401 · Waukegan Fire Department, IL 117 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 117
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #712
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hillsboro Fire an…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Hillsboro Fire and Rescue, OR (+ 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.
- Waukegan (this dept) 117
- High Nassau County Fir…, NY 117
- Near Hillsboro Fire an…, OR 117
- Near Alameda City, CA 117
- Near Pontiac, MI 117
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Waukegan, IL
- County
- Lake County
- FDID
- LA401
Staffing vs the Illinois average
How Waukegan Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #13 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #712 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 127
- IL departments
- 1,493
County roster fringe
Waukegan Fire Department is 7.9% of Lake County roster mass
The county lists 50 departments totaling 1,482 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 84% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.27 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 117 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Hillsboro Fire and Rescue, OR (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 117 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IL department.