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Nance County, NE

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 99.0 Very High

3,324
Population
9
Departments
9
Stations
1
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
0.06
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
60th highest of 93
Life Safety per 100k
1.88
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
15th highest of 93
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$3.1M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
47th highest of 93
Property Loss per Resident
$924
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
6th highest of 93

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 Nance County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 43% of the life-safety total.

Nance County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $3.1M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 93 Nebraska counties. Nationally, Nance County ranks 2878th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 708th for life safety per 100k residents, 2685th for property loss, and 165th 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 Nance 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

36%
10%
54%
Property (buildings): $3.1M (35.8%)
Life safety: $856K (10.0%)
Agriculture: $4.7M (54.2%)

Total expected annual loss: $8,579,556 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 54% of expected annual loss in Nance 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
$369K
Cold Wave
$265K
Lightning
$69K
Strong Wind
$58K
Winter Weather
$41K
Heat Wave
$26K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$1.7M
Hail
$431K
Tornado
$374K
Strong Wind
$359K
Ice Storm
$110K
Wildfire
$34K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Nance 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

100%
Volunteer: 100% (9)
Residents per Station
369
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
270.8
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 9 departments registered in NERIS Public for Nance County, NE. 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 Nance 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 9 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
St. Edward Volunteer Fire And Rescue Department 9,887 $2.8M Very High 1
Genoa Volunteer Fire Department 7,197 $1.9M Very High 1
Wolbach Fire And Rescue 9,883 $1.9M Very High 1
Albion Volunteer Fire And Rescue Department 5,356 $1.8M Very High 1
Palmer Fire Department 9,414 $1.6M Very High 1
Silver Creek Volunteer Fire Department 7,057 $1.5M Very High 1
Cedar Rapids Volunteer Fire Department 3,372 $1.1M Very High 1
Petersburg Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department 3,372 $1.1M Very High 1
Belgrade Volunteer Fire Department 3,324 $855.9K Very High 1
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Risk Snapshot

16.6%
Poverty Rate
21.4%
Age 65+
16.2%
Disability Rate
6.6%
Uninsured
80.6%
Pre-1980 Housing
1.1%
Mobile Homes
16.4%
Vacancy Rate
2.4%
Wood Heat
$65,179
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

5
Last 10 Years
13
Last 25 Years
Severe Storm
Most Frequent

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