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 Lehigh County, the largest single contributor is Cold Wave, 61% of the life-safety total.
Lehigh County carries an expected 4 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $79.4M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 67 Pennsylvania counties. Nationally, Lehigh County ranks 143rd of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 1856th for life safety per 100k residents, 274th for property loss, and 2687th 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 Lehigh 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: $128,346,730 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 Lehigh 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 60 departments registered in NERIS Public for Lehigh 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 Lehigh 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 ▲ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flourtown Fire Company | 129,739 | $15.5M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Lower Merion Township Fire Department | 160,850 | $15.4M | Relatively Moderate | 15 |
| Allentown Fire Department | 116,677 | $15.2M | Relatively High | 15 |
| 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 |
| Oreland Volunteer Fire Company 1 | 78,428 | $8.2M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Hartsville Fire Company #1, Inc. | 117,796 | $8.0M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Lehigh Township Volunteer Fire Company 1 | 76,529 | $5.6M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Bethlehem Fire Department | 73,134 | $5.1M | Relatively Moderate | 13 |
| Friendship Hook & Ladder Company #1, Inc. | 60,019 | $5.1M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Eastern Salisbury Fire Department | 42,354 | $5.1M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Birdsboro-Union Fire Department | 78,549 | $5.0M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Greenawalds Fire Company | 34,730 | $4.5M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Lower Swatara Volunteer Fire Department | 74,967 | $4.4M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Lower Macungie Fire Department | 32,478 | $4.2M | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Friendship Fire And Hose Company | 83,393 | $4.1M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Lampeter Fire Company 1 | 56,018 | $3.7M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Emmaus Fire Department | 30,197 | $3.4M | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Hereford Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. | 27,569 | $2.7M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Lafayette Fire Company | 39,229 | $2.7M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Hebron Hose Company #1 | 40,988 | $2.7M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Mastersonville Volunteer Fire Department | 43,487 | $2.6M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Diamond Fire Company | 22,079 | $2.3M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Metal Township Fire & Ambulance Company | 34,768 | $2.1M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Fairview Volunteer Fire Department | 41,920 | $2.1M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Neffs Volunteer Fire Company | 15,841 | $2.1M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Lyons Volunteer Fire Company | 20,080 | $2.0M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Fannett-Metal Fire & Ambulance Company, Inc. | 29,641 | $1.9M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Tri-Clover Volunteer Fire Company | 13,688 | $1.9M | Relatively Moderate | 5 |
| Community Fire Company 1 Of North Whitehall Township | 13,864 | $1.8M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Rheems Fire Department | 34,433 | $1.8M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Upper Saucon Township Volunteer Fire Department 1 | 14,450 | $1.7M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Coplay Fire Department | 12,497 | $1.6M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Cornwall Borough Community Fire Company | 20,450 | $1.6M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| East Greenville Fire Company | 15,368 | $1.6M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Alburtis Fire Company # 1 | 10,979 | $1.6M | Relatively Moderate | 0 |
| Slatington Volunteer Fire Department | 10,136 | $1.3M | Relatively High | 3 |
| Lynnport Community Fire Company 1 | 14,145 | $1.3M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Fogelsville Volunteer Fire Company | 9,007 | $1.2M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Mutual Volunteer Fire Department | 34,339 | $1.2M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Laurys Station Volunteer Fire Company #1 | 7,686 | $1.1M | Relatively Moderate | 0 |
| Greenfields Fire Company Number One | 12,489 | $871.1K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Shelly Fire Company, Inc. D/B/A Richland Township Fire & Rescue | 14,683 | $818.6K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Cetronia Fire Company 1 | 5,871 | $754.7K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Goodwill Fire Company #1 | 5,490 | $751.7K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Catasauqua Fire Department | 5,284 | $740.3K | Very High | 2 |
| Weisenberg Volunteer Fire Department | 5,018 | $629.5K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| New Tripoli Fire Company | 4,278 | $609.6K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Western Salisbury Fire Department | 4,952 | $607.1K | Relatively High | 2 |
| Milford Township Volunteer Fire Company #1 | 11,003 | $593.2K | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Lower Milford Township Fire Company No 1 | 3,872 | $521.2K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Coopersburg Fire Company 1 | 7,045 | $490.6K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Woodlawn Fire Department | 3,566 | $463.5K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Fountain Hill Fire Department | 3,599 | $440.8K | Very High | 1 |
| Macungie Volunteer Fire Department | 2,423 | $300.9K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Han-Le-Co Volunteer Fire Company #1 | 1,866 | $219.7K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
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