Chicago Fire (2012)

Action · Drama

An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and exhilarating. These courageous men and women are among the elite who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death.

IMDb rating: 8.0 (72,698 votes)
Episode average: 8.1 ↑ +0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 14
Streaming (US): Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 14 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2012)

8.08 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 8.5 42 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.7	1,325
2	Mon Amour	7.9	1,005
3	Professional Courtesy	8.1	948
4	One Minute	7.9	910
5	Hanging On	7.8	851
6	Rear View Mirror	8.1	841
7	Two Families	8.1	841
8	Leaving the Station	8.0	825
9	It Ain't Easy	8.1	796
10	Merry Christmas, Etc.	8.4	807
11	God Has Spoken	7.9	779
12	Under the Knife	8.0	752
13	Warm and Dead	8.1	784
14	A Little Taste	7.9	748
15	Nazdarovya!	7.8	758
16	Viral	8.0	731
17	Better to Lie	8.0	745
18	Fireworks	7.9	713
19	A Coffin That Small	8.7	868
20	Ambition	8.0	708
21	Retaliation Hit	8.1	717
22	Leaders Lead	8.6	775
23	Let Her Go	8.4	771
24	A Hell of a Ride	8.5	758

Season 2 (2013)

8.35 avg 22 episodes 8.2 → 8.9 42 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Problem House	8.2	768
2	Prove It	8.1	688
3	Defcon 1	8.1	679
4	A Nuisance Call	8.3	677
5	A Power Move	8.2	674
6	Joyriding	8.4	725
7	No Regrets	8.8	797
8	Rhymes with Shout	8.2	689
9	You Will Hurt Him	8.2	691
10	Not Like This	8.7	744
11	Shoved in My Face	8.2	670
12	Out with a Bang	8.2	659
13	Tonight's the Night	8.6	702
14	Virgin Skin	8.1	648
15	Keep Your Mouth Shut	8.1	628
16	A Rocket Blasting Off	8.2	640
17	When Things Got Rough	8.3	642
18	Until Your Feet Leave the Ground	8.1	624
19	A Heavy Weight	8.5	653
20	A Dark Day	8.9	938
21	One More Shot	8.3	636
22	Real Never Waits	8.9	816

Season 3 (2014)

8.23 avg 23 episodes 8.4 → 8.7 43 min avg

Rebound

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Always	8.4	787
2	Wow Me	8.0	629
3	Just Drive the Truck	8.7	689
4	Apologies Are Dangerous	8.1	604
5	The Nuclear Option	7.9	598
6	Madmen and Fools	8.2	608
7	Nobody Touches Anything	8.1	651
8	Chopper	8.7	667
9	Arrest in Transit	8.0	600
10	Santa Bites	8.2	591
11	Let Him Die	8.4	617
12	Ambush Predator	8.0	592
13	Three Bells	8.1	661
14	Call It Paradise	8.2	588
15	Headlong Toward Disaster	7.9	611
16	Red Rag the Bull	8.3	595
17	Forgive You Anything	7.8	580
18	Forgiving, Relentless, Unconditional	8.2	600
19	I Am the Apocalypse	8.9	824
20	You Know Where to Find Me	8.3	612
21	We Called Her Jellybean	8.0	645
22	Category 5	8.1	565
23	Spartacus	8.7	638

Season 4 (2015)

8.23 avg 23 episodes 8.4 → 8.5 43 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Let It Burn	8.4	675
2	A Taste of Panama City	8.1	594
3	I Walk Away	8.1	587
4	Your Day Is Coming	8.6	631
5	Regarding This Wedding	7.9	588
6	2112	7.9	597
7	Sharp Elbows	8.3	569
8	When Tortoises Fly	8.0	568
9	Short and Fat	8.6	606
10	The Beating Heart	8.4	633
11	The Path of Destruction	7.9	579
12	Not Everyone Makes It	8.0	562
13	The Sky Is Falling	8.8	669
14	All Hard Parts	8.0	559
15	Bad for the Soul	8.0	556
16	Two Ts	8.0	549
17	What Happened to Courtney	8.3	552
18	On the Warpath	8.1	552
19	I Will Be Walking	8.2	566
20	The Last One for Mom	8.9	670
21	Kind of a Crazy Idea	8.0	543
22	Where the Collapse Started	8.3	542
23	Superhero	8.5	578

Season 5 (2016)

8.42 avg 22 episodes 8.2 → 9.0 42 min avg

Big finale

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Hose or the Animal	8.2	618
2	A Real Wake-Up Call	8.6	578
3	Scorched Earth	8.1	533
4	Nobody Else Is Dying Today	8.7	629
5	I Held Her Hand	8.2	517
6	That Day	8.5	580
7	Lift Each Other	8.2	528
8	One Hundred	8.5	574
9	Some Make It, Some Don't	8.3	571
10	The People We Meet	8.7	580
11	Who Lives and Who Dies	8.1	523
12	An Agent of the Machine	8.3	535
13	Trading in Scuttlebutt	8.4	532
14	Purgatory	8.7	573
15	Deathtrap	8.9	702
16	Telling Her Goodbye	8.9	650
17	Babies and Fools	8.2	524
18	Take a Knee	7.9	539
19	Carry Their Legacy	8.0	499
20	Carry Me	8.9	639
21	Sixty Days	7.9	492
22	My Miracle	9.0	794

Season 6 (2017)

8.20 avg 23 episodes 8.2 → 8.2 40 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	It Wasn't Enough	8.2	597
2	Ignite on Contact	8.1	506
3	An Even Bigger Surprise	8.4	517
4	A Breaking Point	8.4	548
5	Devil's Bargain	8.0	503
6	Down Is Better	8.4	529
7	A Man's Legacy	8.0	491
8	The Whole Point of Being Roommates	7.8	491
9	Foul Is Fair	7.8	496
10	Slamigan	8.2	485
11	Law of the Jungle	8.5	518
12	The F Is For	8.0	479
13	Hiding Not Seeking	8.3	526
14	Looking for a Lifeline	8.5	494
15	The Chance to Forgive	8.8	549
16	The One That Matters Most	8.1	481
17	Put White on Me	8.1	469
18	When They See Us Coming	8.1	493
19	Where I Want to Be	8.1	454
20	The Strongest Among Us	8.1	462
21	The Unrivaled Standard	8.3	475
22	One for the Ages	8.1	442
23	The Grand Gesture	8.2	504

Season 7 (2018)

8.24 avg 22 episodes 7.9 → 8.8 41 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Closer Eye	7.9	569
2	Going to War	8.9	683
3	Thirty Percent Sleight of Hand	8.2	492
4	This Isn't Charity	8.0	494
5	A Volatile Mixture	8.0	485
6	All the Proof	8.5	531
7	What Will Define You	8.7	555
8	The Solution to Everything	8.0	467
9	Always a Catch	8.3	492
10	Inside These Walls	8.0	471
11	You Choose	8.0	463
12	Make This Right	8.1	467
13	The Plunge	8.2	471
14	It Wasn't About Hockey	8.2	501
15	What I Saw	8.0	491
16	Fault in Him	8.2	462
17	Move a Wall	8.1	449
18	No Such Thing as Bad Luck	8.0	436
19	Until the Weather Breaks	8.5	493
20	Try Like Hell	8.1	442
21	The White Whale	8.6	493
22	I'm Not Leaving You	8.8	545

Season 8 (2019)

8.20 avg 20 episodes 8.9 → 8.0 41 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Sacred Ground	8.9	742
2	A Real Shot in the Arm	8.1	512
3	Badlands	8.2	498
4	Infection, Part I	8.7	645
5	Buckle Up	8.1	482
6	What Went Wrong	8.2	473
7	Welcome to Crazytown	8.1	465
8	Seeing Is Believing	8.5	493
9	Best Friend Magic	8.1	533
10	Hold Our Ground	8.1	467
11	Where We End Up	8.3	461
12	Then Nick Porter Happened	7.8	464
13	A Chicago Welcome	8.6	566
14	Shut It Down	8.0	453
15	Off the Grid	8.1	479
16	The Tendency of a Drowning Victim	8.0	441
17	Protect a Child	8.2	453
18	I'll Cover You	8.2	457
19	Light Things Up	7.9	469
20	51's Original Bell	8.0	450

Season 9 (2020)

7.98 avg 16 episodes 8.0 → 8.5 41 min avg

Big finale

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Rattle Second City	8.0	555
2	That Kind of Heat	8.1	487
3	Smash Therapy	7.7	440
4	Funny What Things Remind Us	7.8	433
5	My Lucky Day	8.2	579
6	Blow This Up Somehow	7.8	427
7	Dead of Winter	8.0	416
8	Escape Route	7.9	413
9	Double Red	7.8	410
10	One Crazy Shift	7.9	425
11	A Couple Hundred Degrees	7.9	399
12	Natural Born Firefighter	8.1	396
13	Don't Hang Up	7.8	420
14	What Comes Next	8.0	393
15	A White-Knuckle Panic	8.2	429
16	No Survivors	8.5	502

Season 10 (2021)

8.00 avg 22 episodes 8.2 → 8.5 41 min avg

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mayday	8.2	479
2	Head Count	8.1	421
3	Counting Your Breaths	7.9	410
4	The Right Thing	7.9	400
5	Two Hundred	8.3	491
6	Dead Zone	8.3	408
7	Whom Shall I Fear?	7.8	389
8	What Happened at Whiskey Point?	8.2	387
9	Winterfest	7.9	382
10	Back with a Bang	7.9	385
11	Fog of War	7.8	379
12	Show of Force	8.4	420
13	Fire Cop	7.8	370
14	An Officer with Grit	7.8	383
15	The Missing Piece	7.6	374
16	Hot and Fast	7.9	369
17	Keep You Safe	7.7	369
18	What's Inside You	8.2	426
19	Finish What You Started	7.8	364
20	Halfway to the Moon	7.9	352
21	Last Chance	8.0	361
22	The Magnificent City of Chicago	8.5	448

Season 11 (2022)

7.84 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 8.3 41 min avg

Big finale

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hold on Tight	7.5	433
2	Every Scar Tells a Story	7.8	376
3	Completely Shattered	8.2	448
4	The Center of the Universe	7.8	367
5	Haunted House	7.4	361
6	All-Out Mystery	7.6	347
7	Angry Is Easier	7.8	354
8	A Beautiful Life	7.9	354
9	Nemesis	8.0	355
10	Something for the Pain	7.8	351
11	A Guy I Used to Know	8.0	350
12	How Does It End?	7.7	337
13	The Man of the Moment	7.8	335
14	Run Like Hell	7.8	325
15	Damage Control	8.0	350
16	Acting Up	8.0	346
17	The First Symptom	8.0	325
18	Danger Is All Around	7.9	335
19	Take a Shot at the King	7.7	313
20	Never, Ever Make a Mistake	7.8	323
21	Change of Plans	7.7	320
22	Red Waterfall	8.3	391

Season 12 (2024)

7.92 avg 13 episodes 7.9 → 8.6 42 min avg

Big finale

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Barely Gone	7.9	390
2	Call Me McHolland	7.8	332
3	Trapped	7.9	319
4	The Little Things	7.8	311
5	On the Hook	7.7	327
6	Port in the Storm	7.9	385
7	Red Flag	7.6	324
8	All the Dark	7.8	318
9	Something About Her	7.9	316
10	The Wrong Guy	8.0	306
11	Inside Man	8.1	327
12	Under Pressure	8.0	310
13	Never Say Goodbye	8.6	351

Season 13 (2024)

7.85 avg 22 episodes 7.6 → 8.1 42 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Monster in the Field	7.6	335
2	Ride the Blade	7.6	294
3	All Kinds of Crazy	7.7	291
4	Through the Skin	8.0	282
5	Down the Rabbit Hole	7.7	282
6	Birds of Prey	7.6	277
7	Untouchable	7.7	266
8	Quickstand	7.8	271
9	A Favor	7.6	265
10	Chaos Theory	7.9	266
11	In the Trenches: Part I	8.9	460
12	Relief Cut	7.6	262
13	Born of Fire	7.5	261
14	Bar Time	7.7	262
15	Too Close	8.1	285
16	In the Rubble	8.1	286
17	A Beast Like This	7.8	255
18	Post-Mortem	8.4	296
19	Permanent Damage	7.7	247
20	Cut Me Open	7.7	247
21	The Bad Guy	7.8	245
22	It Had to End This Way	8.1	272

Season 14 (2025)

7.82 avg 21 episodes 7.3 → 8.6 42 min avg

Season 14 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Kicking Down Doors	7.3	301
2	Primary Search	7.4	253
3	In the Blood	7.6	238
4	Mercy	8.3	260
5	Ghosts	7.6	231
6	Broken Things	7.8	239
7	Pierce the Vein	7.7	229
8	A Man Possessed	7.8	227
9	Crime of Passion	7.9	209
10	Carry a Torch	7.5	203
11	Frostbite Blue	7.7	204
12	Coming in Hot	7.7	211
13	Reckoning, Part I	8.6	344
14	Hit and Run	8.2	216
15	Do Not Resuscitate	7.4	189
16	Firehouse 66	7.6	189
17	Sway	7.6	186
18	Instinct	7.8	191
19	Exit Point	7.8	174
20	Speak of the Devil	8.3	180
21	Thank You	8.6	214