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.
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 Will County, the largest single contributor is Cold Wave, 58% of the life-safety total.
Will County carries an expected 9 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $222.0M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 102 Illinois counties. Nationally, Will County ranks 49th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 1248th for life safety per 100k residents, 83rd for property loss, and 1725th for property loss per resident. Computed from census tract data covering every resident, independent of fire department boundaries.
Add fire mortality, cause, and loss
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 Will 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.
Talk to us about Will County See what a department seesWhat Drives the Loss
Total expected annual loss: $348,107,499 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)
By property loss ($/yr)
Census Tract Risk Map
Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Will 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
Department composition covers the 53 departments registered in NERIS Public for Will County, IL. 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 Will 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.
| Department ▲ | Est. Population ▲ | Life-Safety Loss ▼ | NRI Rating ▲ | Stations ▲ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnham Volunteer Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 2 |
| Chatsworth Fire Protection District | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 1 |
| Coffeen Fire Protection District | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 2 |
| Cullom Fire Protection District | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 1 |
| East Hazel Crest Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 3 |
| Fairbury Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 1 |
| Flanagan Graymont Fire Protection District | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 1 |
| Forrest-Strawn-Wing Fire Protection District | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 2 |
| Hazel Crest Fire - Rescue Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 3 |
| Long Point Community Fire Protection District | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 1 |
| Lynwood Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 2 |
| Odell Fire Protection District | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 1 |
| Pontiac Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 2 |
| Sauk Village Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 1 |
| South Holland Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 3 |
| Thornton Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 3 |
| Vandalia Fire Department | 377,801 | $90.7M | Very High | 1 |
| Joliet Fire Department | 149,916 | $29.6M | Relatively Moderate | 22 |
| Aurora Fire Department | 157,269 | $24.1M | Relatively Moderate | 17 |
| Oswego Fire Protection District | 73,484 | $17.5M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Naperville Fire Department | 111,491 | $17.0M | Relatively High | 10 |
| Lockport Fire Protection District | 74,255 | $13.0M | Relatively Moderate | 7 |
| Bolingbrook Fire Department | 75,186 | $12.8M | Relatively Moderate | 5 |
| Minooka Fire Protection District | 39,555 | $12.5M | Relatively High | 5 |
| Tinley Park Fire Department | 53,724 | $11.6M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Plainfield Fire Protection District | 64,560 | $11.4M | Relatively High | 5 |
| New Lenox Fire & Ambulance District | 39,111 | $6.9M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Frankfort Fire Protection District | 36,720 | $6.7M | Relatively High | 5 |
| Braceville Fire Protection District | 22,317 | $6.0M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Gardner Fire Protection District | 22,317 | $6.0M | Relatively High | 1 |
| South Wilmington Volunteer Fire Department | 22,317 | $6.0M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Lemont Fire Protection District | 26,893 | $5.7M | Very High | 4 |
| Manhattan Fire Protection District | 28,190 | $4.8M | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Bourbonnais Fire Protection District | 31,451 | $4.4M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Romeoville Fire Department | 22,582 | $3.7M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Park Forest Fire Department | 14,631 | $3.6M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Troy Fire Protection District | 20,230 | $3.6M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Northwest Homer Fire Protection District | 18,371 | $3.4M | Relatively High | 4 |
| East Joliet Fire Protection District | 16,017 | $3.2M | Relatively High | 3 |
| Homer Township Fire Protection District | 16,218 | $2.9M | Relatively High | 3 |
| University Park Fire Department | 16,133 | $2.8M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Crete Fire Department | 14,193 | $2.7M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Mokena Fire Protection District | 15,085 | $2.6M | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Monee Fire Protection District | 12,805 | $2.2M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Crete Township Fire Protection District | 11,209 | $2.1M | Relatively High | 3 |
| Steger Fire Department | 8,687 | $2.0M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Wilmington Fire Protection District | 9,586 | $1.9M | Relatively Moderate | 4 |
| Channahon Fire Protection District | 10,282 | $1.8M | Relatively Moderate | 4 |
| Beecher Fire Protection District | 8,150 | $1.5M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Braidwood Fire Protection District | 8,218 | $1.5M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Elwood Fire Protection District | 7,727 | $1.4M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Steger Estates Fire Protection District | 2,938 | $581.0K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Rockdale Fire Protection District | 2,291 | $297.0K | Relatively Low | 1 |
Risk Snapshot
FEMA Disaster Declarations
Response-level intelligence for your region
Our Regional tier gives county fire authorities and state fire marshals rollup dashboards across all departments in your jurisdiction: response time analytics, cross-department benchmarking, and coverage gap analysis.
Explore the Regional Tier See the Response Demo