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Osborne County, KS

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 98.6 Very High

3,452
Population
7
Departments
8
Stations
1
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
0.05
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
86th highest of 105
Life Safety per 100k
1.51
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
63rd highest of 105
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$3.3M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
64th highest of 105
Property Loss per Resident
$957
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
12th highest of 105

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 Osborne County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 43% of the life-safety total.

Osborne County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $3.3M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 105 Kansas counties. Nationally, Osborne County ranks 2953rd of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 1011th for life safety per 100k residents, 2637th for property loss, and 147th 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 Osborne 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

47%
10%
42%
Property (buildings): $3.3M (47.3%)
Life safety: $715K (10.2%)
Agriculture: $3.0M (42.4%)

Total expected annual loss: $6,981,473 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.

Agriculture is 42% of expected annual loss in Osborne County, so total loss overstates property loss here. The property figure above counts building loss only.

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
$305K
Cold Wave
$164K
Strong Wind
$82K
Ice Storm
$60K
Lightning
$51K
Winter Weather
$22K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$2.0M
Hail
$544K
Tornado
$264K
Strong Wind
$256K
Ice Storm
$99K
Wildfire
$48K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Osborne 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% (7)
Residents per Station
432
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
231.7
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 7 departments registered in NERIS Public for Osborne County, KS. 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 Osborne 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 7 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Denmark Rural Fire Department 8,510 $1.9M Very High 1
Lucas Rural Fire Department #2 5,764 $1.4M Very High 1
Downs Fire Department 6,368 $1.3M Very High 1
Tipton Rural Fire Department 5,587 $1.1M Very High 1
Osborne Rural Fire Department # 1 5,217 $1.1M Very High 2
Osborne County Fire Department #3 3,452 $715.4K Very High 1
Osborne Fire Department 3,452 $715.4K Very High 1
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Risk Snapshot

8.4%
Poverty Rate
26.8%
Age 65+
14.8%
Disability Rate
5.3%
Uninsured
86.6%
Pre-1980 Housing
5.7%
Mobile Homes
22.3%
Vacancy Rate
3.2%
Wood Heat
$63,011
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

5
Last 10 Years
16
Last 25 Years
Severe Storm
Most Frequent

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