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Talbot County, GA

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 18.9 Very Low

5,742
Population
8
Departments
4
Stations
3
Census Tracts

Natural Hazard Loss Profile

Expected annual loss across the 18 natural hazards in FEMA's National Risk Index. Life safety is expressed in fatality-equivalents, combining expected deaths and injuries. Property loss counts building damage only, separate from agriculture.

Natural Hazard Life Safety
0.02
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
153rd highest of 159
Life Safety per 100k
0.40
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
139th highest of 159
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$1.0M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
152nd highest of 159
Property Loss per Resident
$178
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
120th highest of 159

These figures cover natural hazards only. Structure fire, EMS, and motor vehicle incidents are not included in the National Risk Index and are not counted here, so this is not an all-cause life safety measure. For Talbot County, the largest single contributor is Lightning, 29% of the life-safety total.

Talbot County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $1.0M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 159 Georgia counties. Nationally, Talbot County ranks 3127th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2770th for life safety per 100k residents, 3114th for property loss, and 2943rd for property loss per resident. Computed from census tract data covering every resident, independent of fire department boundaries.

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Natural hazard exposure is one half of the picture. The other half is what your departments run on: fire deaths and injuries, cause of ignition, dollar loss per incident. That comes from NERIS incident reporting, and it grows as departments serving Talbot County enroll. Our Regional tier brings it together across your jurisdiction, with participating departments, alongside response time analytics, cross-department benchmarking, and coverage gap analysis.

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What Drives the Loss

74%
23%
Property (buildings): $1.0M (73.9%)
Life safety: $312K (22.6%)
Agriculture: $48K (3.5%)

Total expected annual loss: $1,379,429 per year. Life safety is shown here in dollars, at FEMA's $13.7M value of statistical life, so the three shares sum to the total.

Hazards Ranked Two Ways

The hazard that threatens people is often not the hazard that destroys buildings. Both columns cover the same 18 hazards over the same year.

By life-safety loss ($/yr)

Lightning
$92K
Tornado
$91K
Heat Wave
$68K
Strong Wind
$30K
Hail
$12K
Earthquake
$8K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$736K
Tornado
$138K
Hurricane
$56K
Hail
$24K
Earthquake
$24K
Strong Wind
$20K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Talbot County. Gray tracts have no modeled loss or no resident population. Per-resident figures on this map use the National Risk Index 2020 tract population.

Fire Service Profile

12%
88%
Combination: 12% (1)
Volunteer: 88% (7)
Residents per Station
1,436
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
69.7
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 8 departments registered in NERIS Public for Talbot County, GA. Departments that have not registered are not counted. Station coverage divides census population by registered stations; department service areas overlap, so their populations are not summed.

Department Rankings

Fire and EMS departments serving Talbot County. Click column headers to sort.

NRI Rating is from FEMA's National Risk Index, which measures community risk across 18 natural hazards using expected annual losses, social vulnerability, and community resilience. Life-Safety Loss uses FEMA's Value of Statistical Life ($13.7M per expected fatality) to estimate annual risk to human life.

Department boundaries and station counts are self-reported through NERIS Public and may not reflect current service areas. Population and Life-Safety Loss reflect each department's full jurisdiction. County-level risk metrics are computed from census tract data and are not affected by boundary accuracy. See full methodology.

Showing 8 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Thurston Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department 15,400 $738.8K Relatively Low 1
Manchester Fire Department 8,181 $365.9K Relatively Low 1
O'Neal Volunteer Fire Department 5,742 $311.8K Very Low 0
Woodland Volunteer Fire Department 4,211 $230.5K Very Low 0
Geneva Volunteer Fire Department 3,249 $186.5K Relatively Low 0
Junction City Volunteer Fire Department 3,249 $186.5K Relatively Low 0
Flint Hill Fire Department 2,493 $125.3K Very Low 2
Box Springs Volunteer Fire Department 1,531 $81.3K Relatively Low 0
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Risk Snapshot

25.2%
Poverty Rate
27.4%
Age 65+
27.0%
Disability Rate
11.8%
Uninsured
39.5%
Pre-1980 Housing
32.9%
Mobile Homes
17.3%
Vacancy Rate
2.0%
Wood Heat
$42,373
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

8
Last 10 Years
10
Last 25 Years
Hurricane
Most Frequent

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