Merrick County Disaster Risk
Merrick County, Nebraska
FEMA Risk Rating
Relatively Low
NRI score (0–100 relative scale)
42.9
FEMA composite county value
State Rank
#19
of 93, sorted high to low by RiskByCounty
Flood NRI score
37.2
higher coastal/inland value
Hazard Risk Breakdown
Five selected hazard categories out of FEMA's 18. Values are FEMA NRI v1.20 scores on a 0–100 relative scale.
Tornado
51.5 / 100
Wildfire
50.1 / 100
Flood
37.2 / 100
Higher of FEMA Coastal Flooding (Not available) and Inland Flooding (37.2) NRI scores.
Earthquake
15.3 / 100
FEMA NRI data summary
Selected hazard scores for Merrick County
Among the five hazard categories displayed by RiskByCounty, tornado has the highest NRI score for this county.
- Tornado
- 51.5
- Wildfire
- 50.1
- Flood
- 37.2
- Earthquake
- 15.3
- Hurricane
- Not available
Higher of FEMA Coastal Flooding and Inland Flooding NRI scores
- Displayed flood score
- 37.2
- Coastal Flooding
- Not available
- Inland Flooding
- 37.2
These five categories are a selected subset of FEMA's 18 natural hazards. FEMA's composite score and official rating are separate fields in the National Risk Index dataset.
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County summaries are deterministic transformations of frozen FEMA county fields. No external subject-matter reviewer is credited.
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Data Source
County data sourced from FEMA National Risk Index v1.20, released December 2025. Values are labeled NRI score (0–100 relative scale). RiskByCounty displays five selected hazard categories out of FEMA's 18; flood is the higher of the Coastal Flooding and Inland Flooding source scores.
RiskByCounty presents county-level source fields and deterministic arithmetic summaries.