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Greene County, NC

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 91.2 Very High

20,486
Population
10
Departments
15
Stations
5
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
86th highest of 100
Life Safety per 100k
0.61
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
56th highest of 100
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$9.3M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
72nd highest of 100
Property Loss per Resident
$454
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
26th highest of 100

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 Greene County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 30% of the life-safety total.

Greene County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $9.3M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 100 North Carolina counties. Nationally, Greene County ranks 2449th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2376th for life safety per 100k residents, 1586th for property loss, and 1012th 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 Greene 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

65%
12%
23%
Property (buildings): $9.3M (64.8%)
Life safety: $1.7M (11.8%)
Agriculture: $3.4M (23.4%)

Total expected annual loss: $14,356,825 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 23% of expected annual loss in Greene 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
$505K
Heat Wave
$318K
Hurricane
$191K
Cold Wave
$177K
Winter Weather
$146K
Strong Wind
$100K

By property loss ($/yr)

Hurricane
$5.7M
Inland Flooding
$2.8M
Tornado
$560K
Earthquake
$108K
Hail
$60K
Strong Wind
$32K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Greene 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

90%
10%
Volunteer: 90% (9)
Unreported: 10% (1)
Residents per Station
1,366
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
73.2
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 10 departments registered in NERIS Public for Greene County, NC. 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 Greene 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 10 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Red Oak Volunteer Fire Department 39,445 $3.6M Relatively High 2
Hugo Fire & Rescue 10,060 $1.6M Very High 4
Arba Rural Fire Association, Inc. 11,878 $927.6K Very High 1
Fort Run Rural Fire & Ems Association Inc. 11,337 $859.2K Very High 1
Hookerton Volunteer Fire And Ems 9,149 $838.8K Very High 1
Maury Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association, Inc. 8,608 $770.4K Very High 2
Shine Rural Volunteer Fire & Ems Association, Inc. 7,538 $578.2K Very High 1
Scuffleton Rural Fire Association, Inc. 4,809 $489.4K Very High 1
Jason Volunteer Fire Department 4,468 $344.9K Very High 1
Castoria Rural Fire Association Inc, 3,799 $281.0K Very High 1
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Risk Snapshot

21.0%
Poverty Rate
17.3%
Age 65+
20.9%
Disability Rate
16.6%
Uninsured
44.2%
Pre-1980 Housing
36.9%
Mobile Homes
12.9%
Vacancy Rate
0.2%
Wood Heat
$54,081
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

13
Last 10 Years
20
Last 25 Years
Hurricane
Most Frequent

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