# Counties in Iowa by social vulnerability score (FEMA National Risk Index), 2025

All 99 values come from Federal Emergency Management Agency for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `nri_social_vulnerability_score`
- Unit: index
- Definition: Social vulnerability of a US county as used in FEMA's National Risk Index, from 0 to 100: the county's national percentile rank among all counties, based on the Census Bureau's Community Resilience Estimates, which count residents with social and economic risk factors such as low income, age, disability and household conditions. Higher means more vulnerable.
- Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE) (https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/fema
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Risk Index Dataset: National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE). https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355. Retrieved 2026-10-12. This product uses the FEMA National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/social-vulnerability-score/iowa-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Davis County | 80.8 |
| 2 | Cass County | 75 |
| 3 | Union County | 74.2 |
| 4 | Wayne County | 73.9 |
| 5 | Van Buren County | 71.3 |
| 6 | Appanoose County | 70 |
| 7 | Lucas County | 69.1 |
| 8 | Taylor County | 65 |
| 9 | Jefferson County | 62.3 |
| 10 | Tama County | 57.2 |
| 11 | Allamakee County | 55.9 |
| 12 | Adair County | 55.6 |
| 13 | Fayette County | 55.4 |
| 14 | Madison County | 54.7 |
| 15 | Osceola County | 51.2 |
| 16 | Calhoun County | 48.5 |
| 17 | Audubon County | 48.2 |
| 18 | Cerro Gordo County | 46.3 |
| 18 | Henry County | 46.3 |
| 20 | Floyd County | 46 |
| 21 | Winnebago County | 45.7 |
| 22 | Page County | 45.2 |
| 23 | Harrison County | 44.2 |
| 24 | Lee County | 43.3 |
| 24 | Wapello County | 43.3 |
| 26 | Decatur County | 43 |
| 27 | Cherokee County | 42.7 |
| 28 | Washington County | 41.7 |
| 29 | Buena Vista County | 40.7 |
| 30 | Marshall County | 39.9 |
| 31 | Wright County | 39.8 |
| 32 | Woodbury County | 39.4 |
| 33 | Hardin County | 38.3 |
| 34 | Monona County | 36.8 |
| 34 | Muscatine County | 36.8 |
| 36 | Clinton County | 34.6 |
| 37 | Des Moines County | 34.5 |
| 38 | Montgomery County | 34.2 |
| 39 | Emmet County | 33.6 |
| 40 | Ida County | 33 |
| 41 | Delaware County | 32.6 |
| 42 | Chickasaw County | 31.7 |
| 43 | Pocahontas County | 31 |
| 44 | Crawford County | 28.2 |
| 45 | Adams County | 28.1 |
| 46 | Clayton County | 27.6 |
| 47 | Plymouth County | 26.2 |
| 48 | Fremont County | 24.9 |
| 49 | Black Hawk County | 23.4 |
| 50 | Mahaska County | 23 |
| 51 | Carroll County | 23 |
| 52 | Hamilton County | 22.4 |
| 53 | Jasper County | 21.9 |
| 53 | Pottawattamie County | 21.9 |
| 55 | Keokuk County | 21.6 |
| 56 | Webster County | 21.5 |
| 57 | Poweshiek County | 21.4 |
| 58 | Greene County | 20.2 |
| 59 | Hancock County | 19.7 |
| 60 | Iowa County | 19.4 |
| 61 | Humboldt County | 19.3 |
| 62 | Scott County | 19.2 |
| 63 | Mitchell County | 17.5 |
| 64 | Polk County | 17 |
| 65 | Jackson County | 15.9 |
| 66 | Linn County | 15.4 |
| 67 | Dickinson County | 15 |
| 68 | Louisa County | 13.6 |
| 69 | Marion County | 13.4 |
| 70 | Story County | 13 |
| 71 | Winneshiek County | 12.2 |
| 72 | Johnson County | 11.4 |
| 73 | Benton County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Boone County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Bremer County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Buchanan County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Butler County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Cedar County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Clarke County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Clay County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Dallas County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Dubuque County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Franklin County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Grundy County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Guthrie County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Howard County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Jones County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Kossuth County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Lyon County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Mills County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Monroe County | 10.6 |
| 73 | O'Brien County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Palo Alto County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Ringgold County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Sac County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Shelby County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Sioux County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Warren County | 10.6 |
| 73 | Worth County | 10.6 |