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San Jacinto County, TX

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 70.6 Relatively High

28,441
Population
11
Departments
13
Stations
9
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
0.55
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
90th highest of 254
Life Safety per 100k
1.93
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
62nd highest of 254
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$6.4M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
117th highest of 254
Property Loss per Resident
$226
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
177th highest of 254

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 San Jacinto County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 56% of the life-safety total.

San Jacinto County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $6.4M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 254 Texas counties. Nationally, San Jacinto County ranks 989th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 669th for life safety per 100k residents, 1998th for property loss, and 2538th for property loss per resident. Computed from census tract data covering every resident, independent of fire department boundaries.

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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 San Jacinto 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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What Drives the Loss

45%
53%
Property (buildings): $6.4M (45.4%)
Life safety: $7.5M (53.3%)
Agriculture: $192K (1.4%)

Total expected annual loss: $14,149,035 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
$4.2M
Inland Flooding
$1.6M
Cold Wave
$789K
Lightning
$396K
Heat Wave
$358K
Strong Wind
$84K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$4.9M
Tornado
$737K
Hurricane
$574K
Wildfire
$87K
Strong Wind
$73K
Hail
$44K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in San Jacinto 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

100%
Volunteer: 100% (11)
Residents per Station
2,188
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
45.7
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 11 departments registered in NERIS Public for San Jacinto 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 San Jacinto 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.

Showing 11 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Shepherd Volunteer Fire Department 15,199 $4.6M Relatively High 2
Punkin-Evergreen Volunteer Fire Department 16,256 $3.6M Relatively High 2
Bear Creek Volunteer Fire Department 11,821 $2.9M Relatively High 1
Goodrich Volunteer Fire Department 10,613 $2.2M Relatively High 1
980 North Volunteer Fire Department 10,590 $2.2M Very High 1
Oakhurst Volunteer Fire Department 10,590 $2.2M Very High 1
Point Blank Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. 10,590 $2.2M Very High 1
South Polk County Volunteer Fire Department 9,763 $2.1M Relatively High 1
Coldspring Volunteer Fire Department 7,846 $1.8M Relatively High 2
Cape Area Volunteer Fire Department 4,907 $1.3M Relatively High 0
Waterwood Fire and Rescue, Inc 2,539 $517.8K Relatively Moderate 1
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Risk Snapshot

18.4%
Poverty Rate
21.6%
Age 65+
23.6%
Disability Rate
17.7%
Uninsured
31.5%
Pre-1980 Housing
22.8%
Mobile Homes
27.5%
Vacancy Rate
2.0%
Wood Heat
$67,245
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

12
Last 10 Years
22
Last 25 Years
Hurricane
Most Frequent

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