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Queen Anne's County, MD

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 38.8 Relatively Low

51,825
Population
10
Departments
12
Stations
14
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
0.19
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
18th highest of 24
Life Safety per 100k
0.36
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
12th highest of 24
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$6.9M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
21st highest of 24
Property Loss per Resident
$132
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
11th highest of 24

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 Queen Anne's County, the largest single contributor is Heat Wave, 24% of the life-safety total.

Queen Anne's County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $6.9M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 24 Maryland counties. Nationally, Queen Anne's County ranks 2046th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2862nd for life safety per 100k residents, 1924th for property loss, and 3159th 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 Queen Anne's 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

54%
20%
26%
Property (buildings): $6.9M (54.0%)
Life safety: $2.5M (20.0%)
Agriculture: $3.3M (26.0%)

Total expected annual loss: $12,707,988 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 26% of expected annual loss in Queen Anne's County, 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)

Heat Wave
$598K
Inland Flooding
$558K
Tornado
$354K
Cold Wave
$315K
Strong Wind
$310K
Lightning
$165K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$3.9M
Coastal Flooding
$1.0M
Hurricane
$914K
Tornado
$335K
Earthquake
$318K
Strong Wind
$233K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Queen Anne's 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

10%
90%
Career: 10% (1)
Volunteer: 90% (9)
Residents per Station
4,319
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
23.2
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 10 departments registered in NERIS Public for Queen Anne's County, MD. 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 Queen Anne's 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 10 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Kent Island Volunteer Fire Department (Queen Anne's County Station 1) 27,345 $1.3M Very Low 1
Church Hill Volunteer Fire Company, Inc (Queen Anne's County Station 5) 22,151 $916.6K Relatively Moderate 1
Goodwill Fire Company, Inc. (Queen Anne's County Station 4) 16,162 $682.3K Relatively High 0
Queen Anne's County Department Of Emergency Services 16,162 $682.3K Relatively High 9
Queenstown Volunteer Fire Department (Queen Anne's County Station 3) 16,162 $682.3K Relatively High 0
Grasonville Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. (Queen Anne's County Station 2) 9,128 $572.9K Relatively Moderate 0
Sudlersville Volunteer Fire Company (Queen Anne's County Station 6) 11,058 $453.8K Relatively Moderate 1
United Communities Volunteer Fire Department (Queen Anne's County Station 9) 8,675 $417.3K Very Low 0
Queen Anne Hillsboro Volunteer Fire Company (Queen Anne's County Station 8) 4,847 $194.9K Relatively High 0
Crumpton Volunteer Fire Department, Inc (Queen Anne's County Station 7) 2,865 $136.3K Relatively Low 0
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Risk Snapshot

6.4%
Poverty Rate
20.7%
Age 65+
10.5%
Disability Rate
5.7%
Uninsured
33.0%
Pre-1980 Housing
3.0%
Mobile Homes
9.7%
Vacancy Rate
2.8%
Wood Heat
$115,126
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

4
Last 10 Years
13
Last 25 Years
Hurricane
Most Frequent

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