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 Wayne County, the largest single contributor is Cold Wave, 47% of the life-safety total.
Wayne County carries an expected 9 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $274.2M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 83 Michigan counties. Nationally, Wayne County ranks 47th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2501st for life safety per 100k residents, 52nd for property loss, and 3080th 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 Wayne 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 Wayne County See what a department seesWhat Drives the Loss
Total expected annual loss: $401,532,675 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 Wayne 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 58 departments registered in NERIS Public for Wayne 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 Wayne 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 ▲ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Of Detroit Fire Department | 622,268 | $44.4M | Relatively Low | 43 |
| Grand Blanc Township Fire Department | 100,613 | $10.4M | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Dearborn Fire Department | 113,404 | $8.4M | Relatively Moderate | 9 |
| Canton Fire Department | 96,455 | $7.0M | Relatively Low | 6 |
| Livonia Fire & Rescue | 90,523 | $6.5M | Very Low | 9 |
| Westland Fire Department | 77,498 | $5.6M | Relatively Low | 5 |
| Howell Area Fire Department | 64,989 | $5.4M | Relatively Low | 17 |
| Taylor Fire Department | 59,542 | $4.3M | Relatively Low | 6 |
| Dearborn Heights Fire Department | 55,181 | $4.1M | Relatively Low | 4 |
| City Of Mt. Pleasant Fire Department | 43,841 | $3.9M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Northville City Fire Department | 42,126 | $3.5M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Hartland Area Fire Department | 42,874 | $3.5M | Relatively Low | 6 |
| Highland Township Fire Department | 33,424 | $3.2M | Relatively Low | 5 |
| Redford Township Fire Department | 44,727 | $3.2M | Very Low | 4 |
| Lincoln Park Fire Department | 36,197 | $2.6M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| City Of Fenton Fire Department | 26,043 | $2.5M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Dexter Area Fire Department | 35,706 | $2.5M | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Plainfield Fire Department | 43,163 | $2.4M | Relatively Low | 3 |
| Rose City Area Fire Department | 23,095 | $2.3M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Ann Arbor Township Fire Department | 32,050 | $2.2M | Relatively Low | 4 |
| Huron Charter Twp | 29,183 | $2.1M | Relatively Moderate | 9 |
| Northville Township Fire Department | 29,574 | $2.1M | Relatively Low | 7 |
| Brownstown Fire Department | 30,380 | $2.1M | Relatively Low | 4 |
| Van Buren Township Fire Department | 28,999 | $2.1M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Southgate Fire Department | 27,013 | $1.9M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Allen Park Fire Department | 25,643 | $1.9M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Plymouth Township Fire Department | 25,172 | $1.8M | Relatively Low | 6 |
| Hamtramck Fire Department | 24,555 | $1.8M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Gladwin Rural Urban Fire Department | 18,405 | $1.7M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Garden City Fire Department | 24,159 | $1.7M | Very Low | 2 |
| Riverview Fire Department | 24,492 | $1.7M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Romulus Fire Department | 23,978 | $1.7M | Relatively Low | 10 |
| Wayne County Airport Authority Fire Department | 23,978 | $1.7M | Relatively Low | 11 |
| City Of Inkster - Fire Department | 23,386 | $1.7M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Berlin Charter Township Fire Department 1 | 21,557 | $1.7M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Wyandotte Fire Department | 22,491 | $1.6M | Very Low | 3 |
| Deerfield Township Fire Department | 15,625 | $1.4M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Trenton Fire Department | 16,738 | $1.2M | Relatively Low | 3 |
| Wayne Fire Department | 15,816 | $1.1M | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Grosse Pointe Woods Department Of Public Safety | 13,843 | $1.0M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Rogers City Area Fire Department | 11,083 | $959.3K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| City Of Harper Woods Fire Department | 12,565 | $902.6K | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Richland Township Fire Department | 17,445 | $881.7K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Woodhaven Fire Department | 11,249 | $806.4K | Relatively Low | 4 |
| Grosse Pointe Park Department Of Public Safety | 10,123 | $724.5K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Grosse Ile Fire Department | 10,011 | $708.0K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Sumpter Township Fire Department | 10,446 | $686.8K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Flat Rock Fire Department | 9,122 | $653.7K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Fremont Township Fire Department | 8,143 | $647.2K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Grosse Pointe Farms Public Safety | 8,845 | $635.3K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Ecorse Fire Department | 7,927 | $587.0K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Highland Park Fire Department | 7,745 | $573.7K | Very Low | 1 |
| River Rouge Fire Department | 6,248 | $453.0K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Grosse Pointe City Fire Department | 4,584 | $330.3K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Gibraltar Fire Department | 4,427 | $317.9K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Rockwood Fire Department | 2,609 | $193.3K | Very Low | 1 |
| Belleville Fire Department | 2,460 | $178.7K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Grosse Pointe Shores Dps | 2,468 | $173.9K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
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