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 Onondaga County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 26% of the life-safety total.
Onondaga County carries an expected 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $86.2M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 62 New York counties. Nationally, Onondaga County ranks 487th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 3079th for life safety per 100k residents, 256th for property loss, and 2910th 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 Onondaga 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 Onondaga County See what a department seesWhat Drives the Loss
Total expected annual loss: $103,067,064 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 Onondaga 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 49 departments registered in NERIS Public for Onondaga County, NY. 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 Onondaga 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 ▲ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syracuse Fire Department | 140,552 | $5.1M | Relatively Low | 14 |
| Scranton Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. | 41,889 | $2.1M | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Clay Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. | 53,162 | $1.6M | Very Low | 2 |
| North Syracuse Volunteer Fire Department | 47,558 | $1.5M | Very Low | 2 |
| Moyers Corners Fire Department | 43,368 | $1.4M | Relatively Low | 4 |
| Fayetteville Fire Department | 34,088 | $1.3M | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Howlett Hill Fire Dept Inc. | 26,705 | $985.6K | Very Low | 1 |
| Niskayuna Fire District No. 1 | 25,272 | $817.6K | Relatively Low | 3 |
| Chatham Fire Department | 12,037 | $685.8K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Cicero Fire Department | 18,890 | $652.7K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| North West Fire District | 18,906 | $604.8K | Relatively Low | 4 |
| Dewitt Fire District | 15,868 | $579.0K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Onondaga Hill Fire Department | 14,352 | $506.9K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Minoa Fire Department | 10,158 | $456.4K | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Fairmount Fire Department | 12,843 | $448.4K | Very Low | 1 |
| Hinsdale Fire Department | 8,360 | $411.8K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Camillus Volunteer Fire Department | 11,097 | $381.6K | Relatively Low | 0 |
| Marcellus Fire Department | 10,031 | $347.7K | Very Low | 1 |
| Jamesville Fire Department | 9,771 | $336.4K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Caughdenoy Vol. Fire Dept. | 10,208 | $325.9K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Warners Memphis Fire District | 9,092 | $320.0K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Belgium Cold Springs Fire Department | 9,681 | $312.2K | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| 174 Fighter Wing Fire Department | 8,130 | $311.3K | Relatively Low | 0 |
| Lakeside Fire District | 7,969 | $287.0K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Cody Fire Station #2 | 9,802 | $274.4K | Relatively Low | 2 |
| Delphi Falls Fire Department | 7,047 | $248.4K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Pompey Hill Fire Department | 7,047 | $248.4K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Skaneateles | 7,090 | $244.8K | Relatively Low | 3 |
| Mottville Fire Company | 6,616 | $223.6K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Elbridge Volunteer Fire Department | 5,440 | $219.0K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Jordan Volunteer Fire Company Inc. | 5,440 | $219.0K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Taunton Fire Department, Inc. | 5,638 | $206.7K | Very Low | 2 |
| Plainville Fire District | 5,575 | $178.4K | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Solvay Fire Department | 5,222 | $178.1K | Very Low | 3 |
| Kirkville Fire Company | 3,954 | $175.4K | Very Low | 1 |
| Navarino Fire Department | 4,884 | $174.5K | Very Low | 1 |
| Amber Fire Department | 5,066 | $164.6K | Very Low | 1 |
| Mattydale Fire Department | 3,967 | $154.1K | Very Low | 1 |
| Nedrow Fire Department Inc. | 3,673 | $121.5K | Very Low | 1 |
| SOUTH ONONDAGA FIRE DEPARTMENT | 3,106 | $114.1K | Very Low | 1 |
| Preble Fire Department | 2,649 | $101.1K | Very Low | 1 |
| Otisco Fire Department | 2,545 | $79.9K | Very Low | 1 |
| Lyncourt Volunteer Fire Department | 2,128 | $74.6K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Apulia Fire Company | 2,063 | $73.5K | Very Low | 1 |
| Fabius Fire Department | 2,063 | $73.5K | Very Low | 1 |
| Scipio Volunteer Fire Department | 3,422 | $63.2K | Very Low | 1 |
| Village Of Manlius Fire Department | 1,522 | $58.7K | Relatively Moderate | 2 |
| Borodino Volunteer Fire Department | 1,795 | $55.1K | Very Low | 1 |
| Seneca River Fire Department | 284 | $9.2K | Relatively Low | 1 |
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