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Hancock County, TN

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 73.0 Relatively High

6,852
Population
8
Departments
10
Stations
2
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
0.04
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
95th highest of 95
Life Safety per 100k
0.58
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
83rd highest of 95
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$2.4M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
93rd highest of 95
Property Loss per Resident
$357
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
14th highest of 95

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 Hancock County, the largest single contributor is Cold Wave, 43% of the life-safety total.

Hancock County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $2.4M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 95 Tennessee counties. Nationally, Hancock County ranks 3029th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2400th for life safety per 100k residents, 2843rd for property loss, and 1471st 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 Hancock 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

80%
18%
Property (buildings): $2.4M (80.0%)
Life safety: $547K (17.9%)
Agriculture: $63K (2.1%)

Total expected annual loss: $3,053,434 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)

Cold Wave
$235K
Tornado
$95K
Strong Wind
$83K
Lightning
$42K
Landslide
$33K
Earthquake
$24K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$2.2M
Earthquake
$90K
Strong Wind
$54K
Tornado
$44K
Hail
$36K
Wildfire
$17K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Hancock 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% (8)
Residents per Station
685
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
145.9
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 8 departments registered in NERIS Public for Hancock County, TN. 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 Hancock 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
Springdale Volunteer Fire Department 13,329 $1.4M Relatively High 3
North Claiborne County Volunteer Fire Department 11,337 $1.3M Relatively Moderate 2
Camp's Volunteer Fire Department 11,409 $1.1M Relatively High 0
Panther Creek Volunteer Fire Department 5,762 $500.3K Relatively Moderate 1
Thorn Hill Volunteer Fire Department 7,173 $382.8K Relatively Low 1
Sneedville Volunteer Fire Department 4,148 $325.1K Very High 1
Chestnut Ridge Volunteer Fire Department 2,704 $221.7K Relatively Moderate 1
Treadway Volunteer Fire Department 2,704 $221.7K Relatively Moderate 1
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Risk Snapshot

32.2%
Poverty Rate
22.5%
Age 65+
22.9%
Disability Rate
11.3%
Uninsured
47.0%
Pre-1980 Housing
21.5%
Mobile Homes
23.0%
Vacancy Rate
7.7%
Wood Heat
$37,541
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

7
Last 10 Years
11
Last 25 Years
Severe Storm
Most Frequent

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