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Livingston County, MI

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 22.9 Relatively Low

195,833
Population
9
Departments
47
Stations
60
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
1.20
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
10th highest of 83
Life Safety per 100k
0.61
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
47th highest of 83
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$38.9M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
12th highest of 83
Property Loss per Resident
$199
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
56th highest of 83

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 Livingston County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 46% of the life-safety total.

Livingston County carries an expected 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $38.9M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 83 Michigan counties. Nationally, Livingston County ranks 490th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2362nd for life safety per 100k residents, 471st for property loss, and 2776th 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 Livingston 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

70%
30%
Property (buildings): $38.9M (70.2%)
Life safety: $16.4M (29.6%)
Agriculture: $132K (0.2%)

Total expected annual loss: $55,455,298 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
$7.5M
Cold Wave
$6.6M
Heat Wave
$1.2M
Strong Wind
$558K
Lightning
$344K
Winter Weather
$82K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$26.7M
Tornado
$6.4M
Strong Wind
$4.0M
Ice Storm
$691K
Hail
$571K
Earthquake
$367K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Livingston 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

89%
11%
Combination: 89% (8)
Volunteer: 11% (1)
Residents per Station
4,167
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
24.0
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 9 departments registered in NERIS Public for Livingston County, MI. 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 Livingston 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 9 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Howell Area Fire Department 64,989 $5.4M Relatively Low 17
Brighton Area Fire Authority 46,418 $4.0M Relatively Low 5
Hartland Area Fire Department 42,874 $3.5M Relatively Low 6
City Of Fenton Fire Department 26,043 $2.5M Relatively Low 2
Green Oak Charter Township Fire Department 25,887 $2.1M Relatively Low 6
Fowlerville Area Fire Department 24,854 $2.0M Relatively Low 4
Hamburg Township Fire Department 20,601 $1.8M Relatively Low 3
Putnam Township Fire Department 11,735 $993.6K Very Low 2
Unadilla Township Fire Department 3,318 $273.9K Relatively Low 2
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Risk Snapshot

5.1%
Poverty Rate
19.7%
Age 65+
11.5%
Disability Rate
2.7%
Uninsured
37.2%
Pre-1980 Housing
5.8%
Mobile Homes
4.9%
Vacancy Rate
1.8%
Wood Heat
$107,552
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

3
Last 10 Years
7
Last 25 Years
Biological
Most Frequent

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