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

All 87 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/minnesota-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Mahnomen County | 97.4 |
| 2 | Cass County | 73.1 |
| 3 | Aitkin County | 72.9 |
| 4 | Nobles County | 65 |
| 5 | Cook County | 63.5 |
| 6 | Itasca County | 63.2 |
| 7 | Koochiching County | 62.4 |
| 8 | Chippewa County | 61 |
| 9 | Faribault County | 57 |
| 10 | Todd County | 54.7 |
| 11 | Martin County | 54.2 |
| 12 | Otter Tail County | 53.5 |
| 13 | Wadena County | 50.5 |
| 14 | Beltrami County | 50.3 |
| 15 | Swift County | 49.7 |
| 16 | Norman County | 47.5 |
| 17 | Cottonwood County | 46.9 |
| 18 | Pine County | 46.2 |
| 19 | Lake County | 43.5 |
| 20 | Renville County | 42.1 |
| 21 | Watonwan County | 41.7 |
| 22 | Becker County | 40.4 |
| 23 | Murray County | 40.4 |
| 24 | Lac qui Parle County | 39.5 |
| 25 | Hubbard County | 38.9 |
| 26 | Big Stone County | 38.2 |
| 27 | Mower County | 37.7 |
| 28 | Redwood County | 36.8 |
| 29 | Freeborn County | 35.9 |
| 30 | Polk County | 35.7 |
| 31 | Crow Wing County | 35.5 |
| 32 | Lincoln County | 34.5 |
| 33 | Kandiyohi County | 34 |
| 33 | Traverse County | 34 |
| 35 | Rice County | 33.2 |
| 36 | Fillmore County | 32.7 |
| 37 | St. Louis County | 32.4 |
| 38 | Blue Earth County | 31.5 |
| 38 | Waseca County | 31.5 |
| 40 | Yellow Medicine County | 30.9 |
| 41 | Benton County | 30.5 |
| 42 | Winona County | 30.3 |
| 43 | Clearwater County | 30.1 |
| 44 | Carlton County | 27.5 |
| 45 | Ramsey County | 27.4 |
| 46 | Pope County | 26.3 |
| 47 | Kanabec County | 25.2 |
| 48 | Stearns County | 24.1 |
| 49 | Marshall County | 24 |
| 49 | Morrison County | 24 |
| 49 | Roseau County | 24 |
| 52 | Douglas County | 22.7 |
| 53 | McLeod County | 20.5 |
| 54 | Hennepin County | 20.3 |
| 55 | Pennington County | 19.3 |
| 56 | Mille Lacs County | 19.2 |
| 57 | Wabasha County | 18.1 |
| 58 | Nicollet County | 15.8 |
| 59 | Jackson County | 15.1 |
| 60 | Clay County | 12.8 |
| 61 | Meeker County | 12.2 |
| 61 | Pipestone County | 12.2 |
| 63 | Brown County | 11.4 |
| 64 | Anoka County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Carver County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Chisago County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Dakota County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Dodge County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Goodhue County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Grant County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Houston County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Isanti County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Kittson County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Lake of the Woods County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Le Sueur County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Lyon County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Olmsted County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Red Lake County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Rock County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Scott County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Sherburne County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Sibley County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Steele County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Stevens County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Washington County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Wilkin County | 10.6 |
| 64 | Wright County | 10.6 |