Community risk profile | NRI Score: 44.3 Relatively Moderate
125,997
Population
58
Departments
79
Stations
36
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
0.22
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
37th highest of 67
Life Safety per 100k
0.18
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
58th highest of 67
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$34.0M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
23rd highest of 67
Property Loss per Resident
$270
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
35th highest of 67
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 Fayette County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 32% of the life-safety total.
Fayette County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $34.0M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 67 Pennsylvania counties. Nationally, Fayette County ranks 1838th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 3190th for life safety per 100k residents, 534th for property loss, and 2109th 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 Fayette 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.
Total expected annual loss: $37,107,623 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)
Tornado
$975K
Lightning
$586K
Inland Flooding
$518K
Strong Wind
$486K
Heat Wave
$218K
Earthquake
$88K
By property loss ($/yr)
Inland Flooding
$31.8M
Tornado
$917K
Hail
$534K
Earthquake
$276K
Strong Wind
$188K
Hurricane
$139K
Census Tract Risk Map
Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Fayette 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
93%
Combination: 7% (4)
Volunteer: 93% (54)
Residents per Station
1,595
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
62.7
registered stations per 100,000 residents
Department composition covers the 58 departments registered in NERIS Public for Fayette 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 Fayette 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.
Our Regional tier gives county fire authorities and state fire marshals rollup dashboards across all departments in your jurisdiction: response time analytics, cross-department benchmarking, and coverage gap analysis.
