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Osceola County, MI

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 40.1 Relatively Moderate

23,227
Population
8
Departments
12
Stations
7
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
0.12
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
66th highest of 83
Life Safety per 100k
0.53
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
59th highest of 83
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$4.6M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
63rd highest of 83
Property Loss per Resident
$198
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
57th 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 Osceola County, the largest single contributor is Cold Wave, 48% of the life-safety total.

Osceola County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $4.6M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 83 Michigan counties. Nationally, Osceola County ranks 2451st of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2491st for life safety per 100k residents, 2326th for property loss, and 2782nd 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 Osceola 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

72%
27%
Property (buildings): $4.6M (72.2%)
Life safety: $1.7M (26.6%)
Agriculture: $76K (1.2%)

Total expected annual loss: $6,365,669 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)

Cold Wave
$815K
Tornado
$258K
Winter Weather
$241K
Lightning
$171K
Strong Wind
$136K
Heat Wave
$48K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$3.4M
Strong Wind
$715K
Tornado
$317K
Hail
$153K
Ice Storm
$20K
Earthquake
$12K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Osceola 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

12%
75%
12%
Combination: 12% (1)
Volunteer: 75% (6)
Unreported: 12% (1)
Residents per Station
1,936
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
51.7
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 8 departments registered in NERIS Public for Osceola 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 Osceola 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 8 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
North Oakland County Fire Authority 17,030 $1.5M Relatively Low 4
Lincoln Township Fire And Rescue 15,042 $1.1M Relatively Moderate 1
Evart Fire Department 14,692 $1.1M Relatively Low 2
Marion Community Fire Department 14,364 $1.1M Relatively Low 1
Hersey Township Fire Department 13,318 $947.1K Relatively Moderate 1
Reed City Fire Department 7,837 $556.7K Relatively Low 1
Leroy-Rose Lake Fire Department 7,178 $537.8K Relatively Low 1
Tustin Area Fire District 6,971 $498.8K Relatively Moderate 1
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Risk Snapshot

15.8%
Poverty Rate
22.0%
Age 65+
19.1%
Disability Rate
9.3%
Uninsured
54.5%
Pre-1980 Housing
17.8%
Mobile Homes
26.0%
Vacancy Rate
17.8%
Wood Heat
$57,515
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

3
Last 10 Years
7
Last 25 Years
Flood
Most Frequent

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