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, not agriculture.
These figures cover natural hazards only. Structure fire, EMS, and motor vehicle incidents are not in the National Risk Index, so this is not an all-cause life safety measure. For New York, the largest single contributor is Cold Wave, 32% of the life-safety total.
New York carries an expected 71 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $3.3B in building loss per year. Ranks compare the 50 states. Computed from census tract data covering every resident, independent of fire department boundaries.
Add fire mortality, cause, and loss
Natural hazard exposure is only part of the risk. Fire deaths and injuries, cause of ignition, and dollar loss per incident come from NERIS incident reporting, which grows as departments in New York enroll. Our Regional tier adds that data for the departments your jurisdiction sponsors, next to public risk and NERIS adoption for every department in New York.
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Total expected annual loss: $4,279,931,198 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)
By property loss ($/yr)
County Risk Map
Shaded by quintile across counties in this state. Click any county for its full profile.
Fire Service Profile
Department composition covers the 1,541 departments registered in NERIS Public for New York. 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.
County Rankings
Counties in New York ranked by risk. Click column headers to sort. Click a county to see its departments.
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 and station counts are derived from boundaries self-reported through NERIS Public and may not reflect current service areas. A department serving several counties is counted in each, so the Departments column adds up to more than the statewide department total. Risk metrics are computed from census tract data and are not affected by boundary accuracy. See full methodology.
| County ▲ | Population ▲ | Departments ▲ | Life-Safety Loss ▼ | NRI Rating ▲ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queens County | 2.3M | 3 | $147.2M | Relatively Low |
| Kings County | 2.6M | 2 | $124.8M | Relatively Low |
| Bronx County | 1.4M | 4 | $86.1M | Relatively Low |
| New York County | 1.6M | 1 | $79.4M | Relatively Moderate |
| Erie County | 950,622 | 93 | $73.5M | Relatively Low |
| Nassau County | 1.4M | 44 | $44.9M | Relatively Low |
| Westchester County | 999,677 | 54 | $43.4M | Relatively Low |
| Suffolk County | 1.5M | 109 | $38.4M | Relatively Low |
| Monroe County | 753,753 | 33 | $33.1M | Relatively Low |
| Richmond County | 494,956 | 1 | $26.2M | Relatively Low |
| Orange County | 406,616 | 45 | $22.4M | Relatively Low |
| Onondaga County | 471,129 | 47 | $16.5M | Relatively Low |
| Rockland County | 341,883 | 15 | $15.3M | Relatively Low |
| Albany County | 317,018 | 42 | $13.4M | Relatively Low |
| Ulster County | 182,601 | 43 | $11.8M | Relatively Moderate |
| Oneida County | 229,124 | 43 | $11.4M | Relatively Low |
| Broome County | 197,378 | 36 | $10.3M | Relatively Moderate |
| Essex County | 36,973 | 27 | $10.1M | Relatively Moderate |
| Dutchess County | 298,220 | 34 | $10.1M | Relatively Low |
| Rensselaer County | 160,332 | 38 | $9.0M | Relatively Low |
| Saratoga County | 238,284 | 32 | $8.9M | Relatively Low |
| Warren County | 65,517 | 16 | $8.2M | Relatively Low |
| St. Lawrence County | 107,226 | 40 | $7.0M | Relatively Moderate |
| Sullivan County | 79,721 | 34 | $6.8M | Relatively Moderate |
| Otsego County | 60,108 | 29 | $6.1M | Relatively Moderate |
| Schenectady County | 160,369 | 23 | $5.7M | Very Low |
| Chautauqua County | 125,544 | 38 | $5.4M | Relatively Moderate |
| Niagara County | 210,721 | 28 | $5.3M | Relatively Low |
| Delaware County | 44,487 | 25 | $4.5M | Relatively High |
| Steuben County | 92,588 | 48 | $4.3M | Relatively Moderate |
| Cattaraugus County | 76,145 | 38 | $4.2M | Relatively High |
| Washington County | 60,522 | 24 | $3.9M | Relatively Low |
| Jefferson County | 115,040 | 32 | $3.9M | Relatively Low |
| Columbia County | 61,100 | 22 | $3.5M | Relatively Moderate |
| Clinton County | 78,493 | 22 | $3.2M | Relatively Moderate |
| Tompkins County | 104,537 | 15 | $3.1M | Relatively Moderate |
| Putnam County | 98,107 | 13 | $3.1M | Very Low |
| Greene County | 47,409 | 20 | $3.0M | Relatively Moderate |
| Fulton County | 52,487 | 13 | $3.0M | Relatively Low |
| Oswego County | 117,953 | 30 | $3.0M | Very Low |
| Montgomery County | 49,528 | 14 | $3.0M | Relatively Moderate |
| Chenango County | 46,321 | 21 | $2.9M | Relatively High |
| Genesee County | 57,787 | 15 | $2.9M | Relatively Moderate |
| Chemung County | 82,147 | 20 | $2.9M | Relatively Low |
| Allegany County | 47,159 | 24 | $2.8M | Relatively High |
| Ontario County | 112,625 | 30 | $2.7M | Very Low |
| Madison County | 67,328 | 23 | $2.6M | Relatively Moderate |
| Herkimer County | 59,757 | 21 | $2.6M | Relatively Moderate |
| Cayuga County | 75,102 | 23 | $2.5M | Relatively Low |
| Livingston County | 61,498 | 17 | $2.0M | Relatively Low |
| Wayne County | 90,929 | 26 | $2.0M | Relatively Low |
| Cortland County | 46,246 | 11 | $1.9M | Relatively Moderate |
| Tioga County | 47,864 | 16 | $1.7M | Relatively High |
| Franklin County | 46,696 | 16 | $1.7M | Relatively Moderate |
| Wyoming County | 39,753 | 19 | $1.6M | Relatively Moderate |
| Schoharie County | 30,049 | 14 | $1.6M | Relatively High |
| Orleans County | 39,608 | 10 | $1.0M | Very Low |
| Lewis County | 26,607 | 24 | $936.7K | Relatively Moderate |
| Seneca County | 32,920 | 10 | $897.9K | Relatively Moderate |
| Yates County | 24,526 | 13 | $807.6K | Relatively Moderate |
| Schuyler County | 17,562 | 11 | $659.8K | Relatively Moderate |
| Hamilton County | 5,089 | 10 | $403.2K | Relatively Moderate |
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