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Kewaunee County, WI

Community risk profile | NRI Score: 53.3 Relatively Moderate

20,664
Population
7
Departments
9
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
68th highest of 72
Life Safety per 100k
0.92
natural hazard fatality-equivalents per 100,000 residents
68th highest of 72
Natural Hazard Property Loss
$4.8M
expected building loss per year, natural hazards only
62nd highest of 72
Property Loss per Resident
$232
natural hazard building loss per resident per year
56th highest of 72

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 Kewaunee County, the largest single contributor is Cold Wave, 64% of the life-safety total.

Kewaunee County carries an expected under 1 natural hazard fatality-equivalents and $4.8M in building loss per year. Rank chips compare the 72 Wisconsin counties. Nationally, Kewaunee County ranks 2013th of 3,222 U.S. counties for life-safety loss, 1865th for life safety per 100k residents, 2271st for property loss, and 2476th 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 Kewaunee 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

57%
31%
12%
Property (buildings): $4.8M (56.7%)
Life safety: $2.6M (30.8%)
Agriculture: $1.1M (12.5%)

Total expected annual loss: $8,477,966 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 12% of expected annual loss in Kewaunee 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)

Cold Wave
$1.7M
Tornado
$379K
Lightning
$204K
Strong Wind
$160K
Hail
$100K
Heat Wave
$75K

By property loss ($/yr)

Inland Flooding
$3.6M
Tornado
$709K
Hail
$350K
Strong Wind
$63K
Earthquake
$13K
Lightning
$10K

Census Tract Risk Map

Shaded by quintile across the census tracts in Kewaunee 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% (7)
Residents per Station
2,296
census population per registered station
Stations per 100k
43.6
registered stations per 100,000 residents

Department composition covers the 7 departments registered in NERIS Public for Kewaunee County, WI. 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 Kewaunee 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
Luxemburg Fire Department 38,404 $7.9M Relatively High 1
Algoma Township Fire Department 17,412 $2.6M Relatively Moderate 1
Denmark Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. 19,651 $2.5M Relatively High 2
Tisch Mills Fire Department 15,985 $2.2M Relatively High 1
Kewaunee Fire Department 13,606 $1.7M Relatively Moderate 2
Carlton Town Fire Department 10,347 $1.4M Relatively High 1
Algoma City Fire Department 2,107 $266.3K Relatively Moderate 1
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Risk Snapshot

7.6%
Poverty Rate
22.2%
Age 65+
12.0%
Disability Rate
3.9%
Uninsured
63.0%
Pre-1980 Housing
3.9%
Mobile Homes
10.8%
Vacancy Rate
6.3%
Wood Heat
$82,080
Median HH Income

FEMA Disaster Declarations

3
Last 10 Years
5
Last 25 Years
Biological
Most Frequent

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