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 Bexar County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 47% of the life-safety total.
Bexar County carries an expected 16 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $401.1M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 254 Texas counties. Nationally, Bexar County ranks 22nd of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 2145th for life safety per 100k residents, 25th for property loss, and 2815th 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 Bexar 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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Total expected annual loss: $619,365,198 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 Bexar 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 30 departments registered in NERIS Public for Bexar County, TX. 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 Bexar 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 ▲ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Antonio Fire Department | 1.5M | $157.3M | Relatively High | 59 |
| Bulverde Spring Branch Emergency Services | 69,619 | $34.0M | Very High | 7 |
| Schertz Fire Department | 62,388 | $28.7M | Relatively High | 3 |
| Bexar County Emergency Service District No. 4 | 55,798 | $12.0M | Very High | 2 |
| Kirby Fire Department | 111,913 | $11.5M | Relatively Moderate | 0 |
| Bexar County Emergency Services District #2 Fire & Rescue | 112,449 | $9.2M | Relatively High | 7 |
| Cibolo Fire Department | 40,331 | $9.2M | Relatively High | 3 |
| Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department | 42,975 | $8.9M | Relatively High | 1 |
| New Berlin Volunteer Fire Department | 12,456 | $8.6M | Very High | 3 |
| Bexar County Emergency Services District #5 F&R | 48,134 | $7.4M | Very High | 4 |
| Bexar County ESD #3 | 57,997 | $6.0M | Relatively High | 8 |
| Travis County Emergency Services District #1 | 36,529 | $5.3M | Relatively Moderate | 7 |
| Selma Fire Department | 16,430 | $4.9M | Very High | 2 |
| Converse Fire and EMS | 48,865 | $4.6M | Relatively High | 2 |
| Plantersville - Stoneham Volunteer Fire Department | 16,286 | $2.8M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Pleasanton Fire Department | 24,447 | $2.6M | Relatively Moderate | 3 |
| Ata-Bexar County Line Volunteer Fire Department | 19,670 | $2.2M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Leon Valley Fire Department | 11,085 | $1.9M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Universal City Fire Department | 18,836 | $1.8M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Live Oak Fire Department | 14,305 | $1.6M | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Helotes Fire Department | 11,879 | $1.3M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Alamo Heights Fire Department | 6,274 | $1.2M | Relatively High | 1 |
| Bexar County Emergency Service District No. 8 | 10,061 | $1.1M | Relatively High | 4 |
| Windcrest Fire Department | 5,763 | $616.9K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Shavano Park Fire / EMS | 5,393 | $490.2K | Relatively High | 1 |
| City Of Terrell Hills Fire Department | 4,143 | $464.5K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Hollywood Park Fire Department | 4,223 | $409.6K | Relatively High | 1 |
| Castle Hills Fire Department | 3,348 | $317.5K | Relatively Low | 1 |
| Balcones Heights Fire Department | 1,787 | $191.8K | Relatively Moderate | 1 |
| Olmos Park Fire Department | 1,449 | $116.5K | Relatively Low | 1 |
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