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Osage County, KS

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 76.4 Relatively High

15,744
Population
9
Departments
26
Stations
5
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
0.37
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
27th highest of 105
Life Safety per 100k
2.35
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
27th highest of 105
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$5.4M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
38th highest of 105
Property Loss per Resident
$341
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
82nd highest of 105

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 Osage County, the largest single contributor is Ice Storm, 37% of the life-safety total.

Osage County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $5.4M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 105 Kansas counties. Nationally, Osage County ranks 1333rd of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 471st for life safety per 100k residents, 2173rd for property loss, and 1566th 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 Osage 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

50%
47%
Property (buildings): $5.4M (49.5%)
Life safety: $5.1M (46.7%)
Agriculture: $407K (3.8%)

Total expected annual loss: $10,829,814 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)

Ice Storm
$1.9M
Tornado
$780K
Lightning
$636K
Heat Wave
$592K
Cold Wave
$528K
Strong Wind
$422K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$3.3M
Tornado
$718K
Hail
$545K
Strong Wind
$260K
Wildfire
$234K
Ice Storm
$160K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Osage 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

100%
Volunteer: 100% (9)
Residents per Station
606
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
165.1
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 9 departments registered in NERIS Public for Osage County, KS. 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 Osage 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 9 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Osage County Fire District #1 10,545 $3.5M Very High 1
Coffey County Fire District # 1 10,441 $3.3M Very High 14
Osage County Fire District No. 2 8,877 $2.8M Relatively High 1
Osage County Fire District #4 7,649 $2.6M Very High 2
Osage County Fire District #5 5,811 $1.8M Relatively High 2
Osage County Fire District 6 5,029 $1.6M Relatively High 1
Quenemo Fire Department 3,678 $1.2M Very High 2
Scranton Fire Department 2,896 $911.3K Very High 1
Osage County Fire District #3 2,133 $640.7K Relatively High 2
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Risk Snapshot

9.7%
Poverty Rate
20.9%
Age 65+
15.9%
Disability Rate
8.1%
Uninsured
60.6%
Pre-1980 Housing
8.5%
Mobile Homes
12.3%
Vacancy Rate
5.5%
Wood Heat
$74,961
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

7
Last 10 Years
20
Last 25 Years
Severe Storm
Most Frequent

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