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.
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 Bucks County, the largest single contributor is Inland Flooding, 25% of the life-safety total.
Bucks County carries an expected 3 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $161.2M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 67 Pennsylvania counties. Nationally, Bucks County ranks 181st of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2646th for life safety per 100k residents, 129th for property loss, and 2315th 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 Bucks 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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Total expected annual loss: $202,625,241 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)
Census Tract Risk Map
Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Bucks 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
Department composition covers the 78 departments registered in NERIS Public for Bucks County, PA. 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 Bucks 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.
| Department ▲ | Est. Population ▲ | Life-Safety Loss ▼ | NRI Rating ▲ | Stations ▲ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen's Fire Company #1 | 147,811 | $8.9M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Fayette Fire Company | 147,811 | $8.9M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Newportville Fire Company | 147,811 | $8.9M | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Penndel Fire Company | 147,811 | $8.9M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| William Penn Fire Company | 147,811 | $8.9M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Wissahickon Fire Company | 147,811 | $8.9M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Brookhaven Fire Company 1 | 132,970 | $8.4M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Oreland Volunteer Fire Company 1 | 78,428 | $8.2M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Hartsville Fire Company #1, Inc. | 117,796 | $8.0M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Friendship Hook & Ladder Company #1, Inc. | 60,019 | $5.1M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Pennsburg Fire Company #1 | 50,716 | $4.5M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Quarryville Fire Company #1 | 96,745 | $4.4M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Lower Swatara Volunteer Fire Department | 74,967 | $4.4M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Fleetwood Volunteer Fire Company #1 | 61,125 | $4.1M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Friendship Fire And Hose Company | 83,393 | $4.1M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Langhorne Middletown Fire Company | 70,832 | $3.9M | Relatively Moderate | 4 |
| Bensalem Fire Rescue | 58,736 | $3.4M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Edgely Fire Company #1, Inc. | 45,409 | $3.3M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Humane Fire Company 1 | 31,422 | $3.3M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Picture Rocks Volunteer Fire Company | 54,296 | $3.2M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Croydon Fire Company 1 | 27,995 | $3.2M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Parkland Fire Company | 59,011 | $2.9M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Goodwill Hose Company #3 | 22,841 | $2.7M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Cochranville Fire Company | 45,653 | $2.6M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Plumsteadville Volunteer Fire Company | 43,018 | $2.5M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Yardley-Makefield Fire Company | 32,763 | $2.4M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Doylestown Fire Company #1 | 37,485 | $2.2M | Relatively Moderate | 4 |
| Citizens Hose Company #1 Volunteer Fire Department | 45,097 | $2.2M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Northampton Township Fire Department | 38,125 | $1.9M | Relatively Low | 3 |
| Juction Fire Company #15 | 36,481 | $1.8M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Upper Saucon Township Volunteer Fire Department 1 | 14,450 | $1.7M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Robert Fulton Fire Company | 32,831 | $1.7M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Levittown Fire Company 2 | 28,120 | $1.6M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Bristol Consolidated Volunteer Fire Company | 13,197 | $1.5M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Bristol Fire Company | 13,197 | $1.5M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Markleysburg Henry-Clay Volunteer Fire Department | 36,392 | $1.4M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Chief Logan Volunteer Fire Department | 27,849 | $1.4M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| West Granville Fire Company | 27,849 | $1.4M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Warminster Fire Department | 25,709 | $1.4M | Relatively Low | 3 |
| Po-Mar-Lin Fire Company # 1 | 39,214 | $1.3M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Mutual Volunteer Fire Department | 34,339 | $1.2M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Quakertown Fire Department | 14,157 | $1.1M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Newtown Emergency Services Department | 20,906 | $1.0M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Newtown Fire Association | 20,906 | $1.0M | Relatively Low | 0 |
| Paxtang Fire Company Number One | 19,415 | $1.0M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| New Hope Eagle Fire Company | 11,183 | $982.1K | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Chalfont Fire Company | 17,177 | $957.4K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Perkasie Fire Company 1 | 18,099 | $931.3K | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Trumbauersville Fire Company, Bucks County Station | 17,485 | $909.2K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Telford Volunteer Fire Company | 14,832 | $901.7K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Sellersville Fire Department | 16,221 | $887.9K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Southampton Fire Company #1 | 13,723 | $863.8K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Lingohocken Fire Company | 15,601 | $834.6K | Relatively High | 4 |
| Shelly Fire Company, Inc. D/B/A Richland Township Fire & Rescue | 14,683 | $818.6K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Point Pleasant Fire Company #1 | 12,283 | $810.0K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Dublin Volunteer Fire Company | 17,050 | $799.9K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Morrisville Fire Company | 9,478 | $731.6K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Warwick Township Fire Company 1 | 13,779 | $719.5K | Relatively High | 2 |
| Upper Black Eddy Fire Company #1 | 8,430 | $718.9K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Haycock Fire Company 1 | 13,146 | $667.5K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Tylersport Fire Company | 9,347 | $624.2K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Milford Township Volunteer Fire Company #1 | 11,003 | $593.2K | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Falls Township Fire Company #1 | 10,164 | $589.7K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Upper Makefield Fire Company | 8,135 | $584.1K | Relatively High | 2 |
| Fairfield Township Volunteer Fire Company 1 | 19,253 | $562.6K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Richlandtown Fire Company #1 | 10,163 | $543.4K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Lower Southampton Fire Department #1 | 8,996 | $542.3K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Delaware Valley Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. | 7,195 | $510.5K | Relatively High | 2 |
| Coopersburg Fire Company 1 | 7,045 | $490.6K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Hilltown Township Volunteer Fire Company | 11,080 | $478.9K | Relatively Low | 3 |
| Third District Fire Company No.1 | 4,328 | $344.0K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Warrington Township Fire Department | 7,342 | $341.1K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Silverdale Volunteer Fire Company | 8,114 | $339.9K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Dow Emergency Services & Security | 1,708 | $274.5K | Relatively High | 0 |
| Washington Fire Company #1 | 4,450 | $253.4K | Very High | 1 |
| Levittown Fire Company 1 | 1,779 | $132.5K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Tullytown Fire Company #1 | 1,779 | $132.5K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Ivyland Fire Company | 431 | $22.3K | Relatively Low | 1 |
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