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Caldwell Parish, LA

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 59.0 Relatively Moderate

9,500
Population
10
Departments
30
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
0.10
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
61st highest of 64
Life Safety per 100k
1.05
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
39th highest of 64
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$2.2M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
58th highest of 64
Property Loss per Resident
$237
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
45th highest of 64

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 Caldwell Parish, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 38% of the life-safety total.

Caldwell Parish carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $2.2M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 64 Louisiana counties. Nationally, Caldwell Parish ranks 2626th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 1652nd for life safety per 100k residents, 2880th for property loss, and 2436th 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 Caldwell Parish 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

57%
35%
8%
Property (buildings): $2.2M (56.9%)
Life safety: $1.4M (34.6%)
Agriculture: $335K (8.5%)

Total expected annual loss: $3,948,531 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.

Agriculture is 8% of expected annual loss in Caldwell Parish, so total loss overstates property loss here. The property figure above counts building loss only.

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)

Tornado
$516K
Heat Wave
$396K
Strong Wind
$252K
Cold Wave
$91K
Lightning
$55K
Inland Flooding
$17K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$1.6M
Hurricane
$168K
Tornado
$167K
Hail
$129K
Strong Wind
$102K
Ice Storm
$40K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Caldwell Parish. 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

40%
50%
10%
Combination: 40% (4)
Volunteer: 50% (5)
Unreported: 10% (1)
Residents per Station
317
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
315.8
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 10 departments registered in NERIS Public for Caldwell Parish, LA. 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 Caldwell Parish. 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 10 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Livingston Parish Fire Protection District #4 138,482 $22.8M Very High 12
Carencro Fire Department 72,363 $11.1M Very High 3
Scott Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. 40,441 $5.8M Relatively High 3
Jonesville Fire Protection District 16,834 $1.8M Relatively High 1
Grayson Volunteer Fire Department 9,500 $1.4M Relatively Moderate 2
Mangham Fire District 7,857 $1.1M Relatively High 4
Franklin Parish Fire Protection District #2 7,919 $937.3K Relatively Moderate 3
Columbia Heights Volunteer Fire Department 2,266 $323.2K Relatively Moderate 1
Corey Volunteer Fire Department 2,266 $323.2K Relatively Moderate 0
East Columbia Volunteer Fire Department 2,266 $323.2K Relatively Moderate 1
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Risk Snapshot

29.8%
Poverty Rate
18.5%
Age 65+
22.8%
Disability Rate
6.0%
Uninsured
38.1%
Pre-1980 Housing
41.4%
Mobile Homes
20.4%
Vacancy Rate
1.2%
Wood Heat
$53,935
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

19
Last 10 Years
29
Last 25 Years
Hurricane
Most Frequent

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