Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

West Dundee Fire Department

West Dundee, IL · Kane County. West Dundee Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 49 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.

49
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

West Dundee Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Illinois average.

Top 19%
national personnel size
+113%
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.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
53/100
West Dundee Fire Department

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 C
24.5 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
49 personnel · 2 stations

West Dundee Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving West Dundee, IL (Kane County), with 2 stations and 49 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,224 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #4,224 of 22,440
  • IL personnel rank #169 of 971
  • 4.08 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 25 other listed departments in Kane County

West Dundee Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

49 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 KA352 · West Dundee Fire Department, IL 49 personnel · 2 stations

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

  • PERS-SMALL 49
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #4,224
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ City of Horseshoe…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department, 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.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
Location
West Dundee, IL
FDID
KA352

Staffing vs the Illinois average

How West Dundee Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Illinois. In-state it ranks #169 of 971 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,224 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 113% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
127
IL departments
1,493

County roster fringe

West Dundee Fire Department is 5.1% 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.

4.08 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 49 roster).

Photo-finish peer: City of Horseshoe Bay Fire Department, TX (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 49 personnel

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