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Hoke County, NC

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 52.3 Relatively Moderate

53,835
Population
8
Departments
22
Stations
12
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
0.30
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
53rd highest of 100
Life Safety per 100k
0.56
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
58th highest of 100
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$8.1M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
80th highest of 100
Property Loss per Resident
$150
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
99th 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 Hoke County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 42% of the life-safety total.

Hoke County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $8.1M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 100 North Carolina counties. Nationally, Hoke County ranks 1509th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2439th for life safety per 100k residents, 1744th for property loss, and 3101st 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 Hoke 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

62%
32%
Property (buildings): $8.1M (61.9%)
Life safety: $4.1M (31.6%)
Agriculture: $858K (6.6%)

Total expected annual loss: $13,078,732 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 7% of expected annual loss in Hoke 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
$1.7M
Heat Wave
$844K
Cold Wave
$589K
Strong Wind
$252K
Lightning
$221K
Earthquake
$162K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$4.3M
Hurricane
$1.8M
Tornado
$871K
Earthquake
$321K
Wildfire
$272K
Strong Wind
$211K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Hoke 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%
50%
38%
Career: 12% (1)
Combination: 50% (4)
Volunteer: 38% (3)
Residents per Station
2,447
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
40.9
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 8 departments registered in NERIS Public for Hoke 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 Hoke 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
Fort Bragg Army Fire & Emergency Services 54,684 $3.7M Relatively Low 13
North Scotland Volunteer Fire Department 15,130 $1.6M Relatively High 1
Puppy Creek Fire Department 17,971 $1.3M Relatively Moderate 1
Rockfish Fire Department, Inc. 12,029 $919.4K Relatively Moderate 1
Pine Hill Fire Department 8,603 $660.8K Relatively Moderate 1
West Hoke Fire Department 8,603 $660.8K Relatively Moderate 1
Raeford Fire Department 6,420 $542.1K Relatively High 2
Stonewall Rural Fire Department 6,510 $514.4K Relatively Low 2
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Risk Snapshot

17.1%
Poverty Rate
11.7%
Age 65+
17.4%
Disability Rate
10.3%
Uninsured
21.8%
Pre-1980 Housing
20.6%
Mobile Homes
7.9%
Vacancy Rate
0.5%
Wood Heat
$66,567
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

13
Last 10 Years
16
Last 25 Years
Hurricane
Most Frequent

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