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Humboldt County, NV

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 76.1 Relatively High

17,289
Population
10
Departments
10
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
0.10
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
9th highest of 17
Life Safety per 100k
0.55
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
14th highest of 17
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$13.3M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
8th highest of 17
Property Loss per Resident
$769
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
6th highest of 17

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 Humboldt County, the largest single contributor is Wildfire, 28% of the life-safety total.

Humboldt County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $13.3M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 17 Nevada counties. Nationally, Humboldt County ranks 2651st of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2453rd for life safety per 100k residents, 1239th for property loss, and 286th 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 Humboldt 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

84%
8%
8%
Property (buildings): $13.3M (84.0%)
Life safety: $1.3M (8.3%)
Agriculture: $1.2M (7.8%)

Total expected annual loss: $15,843,081 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 Humboldt 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)

Wildfire
$370K
Earthquake
$354K
Heat Wave
$249K
Avalanche
$137K
Winter Weather
$109K
Lightning
$46K

By property loss ($/yr)

Wildfire
$9.3M
Inland Flooding
$2.5M
Earthquake
$1.4M
Winter Weather
$55K
Strong Wind
$6K
Tornado
$4K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Humboldt 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

20%
80%
Combination: 20% (2)
Volunteer: 80% (8)
Residents per Station
1,729
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
57.8
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 10 departments registered in NERIS Public for Humboldt County, NV. 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 Humboldt 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
Gerlach Volunteer Fire Department 5,590 $2.5M Very High 1
Orovada Volunteer Fire Department 19,684 $2.0M Relatively High 1
Pueblo Fire District 19,684 $2.0M Relatively High 0
Valmy Volunteer Fire Department 19,684 $2.0M Relatively High 1
Winnemucca Rural Fire Department (Part Of Humboldt Fire Protection District) 19,684 $2.0M Relatively High 2
Winnemucca Volunteer Fire Department 19,684 $2.0M Relatively High 1
Mcdermitt Fire Protection District 6,193 $508.7K Very High 1
Grass Valley Pershing County Volunteer Fire Department 6,487 $278.7K Very High 1
Lovelock Volunteer Fire Department 6,487 $278.7K Very High 1
Rye Patch Volunteer Fire Department 6,487 $278.7K Very High 1
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Risk Snapshot

10.6%
Poverty Rate
16.5%
Age 65+
14.5%
Disability Rate
8.7%
Uninsured
33.3%
Pre-1980 Housing
34.1%
Mobile Homes
11.0%
Vacancy Rate
6.3%
Wood Heat
$80,328
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

3
Last 10 Years
6
Last 25 Years
Biological
Most Frequent

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