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Neshoba County, MS

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 74.8 Relatively High

28,932
Population
6
Departments
14
Stations
8
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
0.38
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
34th highest of 82
Life Safety per 100k
1.32
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
41st highest of 82
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$8.5M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
28th highest of 82
Property Loss per Resident
$293
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
40th highest of 82

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 Neshoba County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 36% of the life-safety total.

Neshoba County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $8.5M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 82 Mississippi counties. Nationally, Neshoba County ranks 1302nd of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 1235th for life safety per 100k residents, 1700th for property loss, and 1911th 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 Neshoba 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

57%
35%
8%
Property (buildings): $8.5M (56.5%)
Life safety: $5.2M (35.0%)
Agriculture: $1.3M (8.5%)

Total expected annual loss: $14,989,561 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 8% of expected annual loss in Neshoba 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
$1.9M
Cold Wave
$1.5M
Heat Wave
$663K
Strong Wind
$514K
Earthquake
$239K
Lightning
$216K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$3.7M
Tornado
$2.2M
Hurricane
$960K
Hail
$595K
Earthquake
$557K
Strong Wind
$256K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Neshoba 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

17%
17%
67%
Career: 17% (1)
Combination: 17% (1)
Volunteer: 67% (4)
Residents per Station
2,067
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
48.4
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 6 departments registered in NERIS Public for Neshoba County, MS. 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 Neshoba 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 6 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Dixon Community Volunteer Fire Department 16,800 $3.0M Relatively High 2
East Neshoba Volunteer Fire Department 10,669 $1.9M Relatively High 4
Philadelphia Fire Department 10,100 $1.9M Relatively High 3
Longino Volunteer Fire Department 8,769 $1.7M Relatively High 1
Hope Volunteer Fire Department 8,882 $1.6M Very High 2
Choctaw Fire Department 6,960 $1.3M Relatively High 2
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Risk Snapshot

23.1%
Poverty Rate
16.9%
Age 65+
17.6%
Disability Rate
11.9%
Uninsured
42.8%
Pre-1980 Housing
21.4%
Mobile Homes
15.1%
Vacancy Rate
1.8%
Wood Heat
$57,486
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

10
Last 10 Years
19
Last 25 Years
Severe Storm
Most Frequent

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