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Falls County, TX

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 48.5 Relatively Moderate

17,291
Population
7
Departments
12
Stations
6
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
0.19
expected fatality-equivalents per year, natural hazards only
151st highest of 254
Life Safety per 100k
1.07
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
156th highest of 254
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$2.8M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
177th highest of 254
Property Loss per Resident
$164
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
225th highest of 254

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 Falls County, the largest single contributor is Tornado, 46% of the life-safety total.

Falls County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $2.8M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 254 Texas counties. Nationally, Falls County ranks 2050th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 1608th for life safety per 100k residents, 2738th for property loss, and 3030th 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 Falls 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

47%
43%
10%
Property (buildings): $2.8M (47.5%)
Life safety: $2.5M (42.5%)
Agriculture: $595K (10.0%)

Total expected annual loss: $5,967,030 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 10% of expected annual loss in Falls 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
$1.2M
Cold Wave
$547K
Heat Wave
$304K
Lightning
$222K
Inland Flooding
$130K
Strong Wind
$72K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$1.8M
Tornado
$541K
Hail
$198K
Hurricane
$127K
Strong Wind
$85K
Wildfire
$36K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Falls 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

14%
86%
Career: 14% (1)
Volunteer: 86% (6)
Residents per Station
1,441
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
69.4
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 7 departments registered in NERIS Public for Falls 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 Falls 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 7 departments
Department Est. Population Life-Safety Loss NRI Rating Stations
Lorena Volunteer Fire Department 29,339 $5.0M Relatively Moderate 3
Robinson Volunteer Fire Department 14,429 $2.6M Relatively Moderate 2
Marlin Fire Department 8,696 $1.3M Relatively Moderate 3
Lott Volunteer Fire Department 7,816 $1.1M Relatively Low 1
Chilton Volunteer Fire Department 5,182 $716.6K Relatively Low 1
West Phalia Fire Department 4,796 $655.9K Relatively Moderate 1
Rosebud Volunteer Fire Department 2,634 $363.6K Relatively Moderate 1
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Risk Snapshot

14.7%
Poverty Rate
19.3%
Age 65+
16.9%
Disability Rate
16.9%
Uninsured
59.5%
Pre-1980 Housing
12.3%
Mobile Homes
14.8%
Vacancy Rate
1.7%
Wood Heat
$62,243
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

7
Last 10 Years
12
Last 25 Years
Fire
Most Frequent

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