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 Harris County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 55% of the life-safety total.
Harris County carries an expected 45 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $1.6B in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 254 Texas counties. Nationally, Harris County ranks 5th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 1840th for life safety per 100k residents, 5th for property loss, and 1639th 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 Harris 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.
Talk to us about Harris County See what a department seesWhat Drives the Loss
Total expected annual loss: $2,217,702,094 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 Harris 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 56 departments registered in NERIS Public for Harris County, TX. 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 Harris 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 ▲ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Fire Department | 2.3M | $304.6M | Relatively High | 101 |
| Cy-Fair Fire Department | 506,472 | $61.9M | Relatively High | 29 |
| League City Fire Department | 117,219 | $26.3M | Relatively Moderate | 9 |
| Pasadena Fire Department | 155,893 | $20.3M | Relatively High | 20 |
| Klein Fire Department | 163,654 | $20.1M | Relatively High | 14 |
| Harris County ESD 7 | 160,927 | $18.7M | Relatively High | 9 |
| Pearland Fire Department | 157,214 | $17.2M | Relatively High | 7 |
| Community Volunteer Fire Department | 129,913 | $15.8M | Relatively High | 9 |
| Waller-Harris Emergency Services District 200 | 129,280 | $15.7M | Very High | 15 |
| Baytown Fire Department | 111,753 | $15.3M | Relatively High | 11 |
| Missouri City Fire & Rescue Services | 121,000 | $14.2M | Relatively High | 10 |
| Harris County ESD 48 | 114,328 | $14.1M | Relatively High | 9 |
| Montgomery County Emergency Services District No.10/Magnolia Fire Department | 94,377 | $12.6M | Relatively Moderate | 9 |
| La Porte Fire Department | 76,969 | $12.3M | Relatively High | 6 |
| Harris County Esd 17 | 90,624 | $12.1M | Relatively High | 5 |
| South Montgomery County Fire Department | 80,958 | $11.9M | Relatively High | 6 |
| Northwest Volunteer Fire Department | 82,179 | $11.0M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Channelview Fire Department | 69,309 | $10.5M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Crosby Volunteer Fire Department | 66,395 | $9.6M | Relatively High | 5 |
| Cypress Creek Fire Department | 77,701 | $9.5M | Relatively High | 12 |
| Eastex Freeway Volunteer Fire Department (Harris County Esd #10) | 78,567 | $9.0M | Very High | 8 |
| Harris County Fire & Emergency Services Department | 78,567 | $9.0M | Very High | 1 |
| Sheldon Community Fire & Rescue | 69,225 | $8.6M | Relatively High | 5 |
| Atascocita Fire Department | 66,780 | $8.1M | Relatively High | 8 |
| Friendswood Volunteer Fire Department | 39,273 | $7.4M | Relatively High | 8 |
| Katy Fire Department | 51,979 | $7.1M | Very High | 4 |
| Harris County Esd 12 Fire Department (Cloverleaf Fire Department) | 54,998 | $6.9M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Ponderosa Fire Department | 48,945 | $6.5M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Westlake Volunteer Fire Department | 46,227 | $6.3M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Aldine Fire & Rescue | 46,401 | $6.2M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Westfield Road Volunteer Fire Department | 34,487 | $5.3M | Very High | 2 |
| Rosehill Fire Department | 43,213 | $4.6M | Very High | 3 |
| Mont Belvieu Fire Department | 28,748 | $4.6M | Very High | 2 |
| Bowie Fire Department | 24,552 | $4.5M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Dayton Volunteer Fire Department | 28,054 | $4.5M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Deer Park Volunteer Fire Department | 31,954 | $4.1M | Relatively High | 5 |
| Waller Volunteer Fire Department | 34,870 | $3.9M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Highlands Volunteer Fire Department | 23,167 | $3.6M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Tomball Fire Department | 30,164 | $3.6M | Relatively High | 5 |
| Champions Emergency Service District (Harris County ESD 29) | 28,520 | $3.3M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Bellaire Fire Department | 14,372 | $2.7M | Very High | 1 |
| Huffman Fire Department | 17,117 | $2.3M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Southeast Volunteer Fire Department | 17,858 | $2.3M | Very High | 2 |
| Humble Fire Rescue | 16,903 | $2.3M | Very High | 4 |
| Village Fire Department | 17,111 | $2.1M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Seabrook Volunteer Fire Department Inc. | 12,228 | $2.1M | Relatively High | 4 |
| South Houston Volunteer Fire Department | 14,123 | $1.9M | Relatively High | 2 |
| West University Place Fire Department | 12,364 | $1.7M | Very High | 2 |
| Webster Fire Department | 12,700 | $1.6M | Relatively High | 3 |
| Jersey Village Fire Department | 8,765 | $1.2M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Forest Bend Volunteer Fire Department | 8,278 | $1.0M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Galena Park Fire Department | 7,338 | $971.9K | Relatively High | 2 |
| Jacinto City Fire Department | 7,235 | $932.5K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Nassau Bay Volunteer Fire Department | 3,458 | $621.2K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Southside Place Fire Department | 782 | $145.6K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Mcnair Volunteer Fire Department | 532 | $81.6K | Relatively High | 1 |
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