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La Salle Parish, LA

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 65.0 Relatively High

14,789
Population
11
Departments
32
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
0.11
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
60th highest of 64
Life Safety per 100k
0.73
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
64th highest of 64
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$3.5M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
54th highest of 64
Property Loss per Resident
$234
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
48th 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 La Salle Parish, the largest single contributor is Heat Wave, 42% of the life-safety total.

La Salle Parish carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $3.5M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 64 Louisiana counties. Nationally, La Salle Parish ranks 2576th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2184th for life safety per 100k residents, 2602nd for property loss, and 2463rd 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 La Salle 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

69%
30%
Property (buildings): $3.5M (69.4%)
Life safety: $1.5M (29.8%)
Agriculture: $44K (0.9%)

Total expected annual loss: $4,982,413 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)

Heat Wave
$619K
Cold Wave
$243K
Tornado
$215K
Strong Wind
$201K
Lightning
$111K
Earthquake
$34K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$2.6M
Hurricane
$317K
Tornado
$284K
Strong Wind
$103K
Earthquake
$75K
Hail
$59K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in La Salle 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

18%
73%
9%
Combination: 18% (2)
Volunteer: 73% (8)
Unreported: 9% (1)
Residents per Station
462
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
216.4
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 11 departments registered in NERIS Public for La Salle 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 La Salle 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 11 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Rapides Parish Fire District 6 23,147 $2.4M Relatively Moderate 3
Winn Parish Fire District #3 12,052 $1.8M Relatively Moderate 14
Summerville-Rosefield Volunteer Fire Department 14,789 $1.5M Relatively High 3
Whitehall Volunteer Fire Department 14,789 $1.5M Relatively High 3
Little Creek-Searcy Volunteer Fire Department 10,150 $1.0M Relatively High 1
Rogers-Nebo Volunteer Fire Department 10,150 $1.0M Relatively High 0
Olla Volunteer Fire Department 8,243 $857.4K Relatively High 2
Tullos Volunteer Fire Department 8,243 $857.4K Relatively High 1
Jena Fire Department 6,546 $625.1K Relatively High 1
Urania Fire Department 4,639 $436.9K Relatively High 2
Eden Fellowship Volunteer Fire Department 3,604 $420.5K Relatively Moderate 2
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Risk Snapshot

16.0%
Poverty Rate
17.0%
Age 65+
17.0%
Disability Rate
3.6%
Uninsured
46.8%
Pre-1980 Housing
31.6%
Mobile Homes
18.6%
Vacancy Rate
1.1%
Wood Heat
$61,368
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

17
Last 10 Years
28
Last 25 Years
Hurricane
Most Frequent

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