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

All 62 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/new-york-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Bronx County | 99.7 |
| 2 | Kings County | 96.5 |
| 3 | New York County | 96.3 |
| 4 | Queens County | 93.5 |
| 5 | Yates County | 92 |
| 6 | Delaware County | 85.9 |
| 7 | Seneca County | 80.4 |
| 8 | Cattaraugus County | 78.9 |
| 9 | Chautauqua County | 70.3 |
| 10 | Montgomery County | 69.5 |
| 11 | Rockland County | 68.2 |
| 12 | St. Lawrence County | 64.7 |
| 13 | Richmond County | 61.6 |
| 14 | Chenango County | 57.9 |
| 15 | Broome County | 57.4 |
| 16 | Columbia County | 57.2 |
| 17 | Otsego County | 56.8 |
| 18 | Oneida County | 56.2 |
| 19 | Essex County | 55.6 |
| 20 | Steuben County | 54.9 |
| 21 | Hamilton County | 52.3 |
| 22 | Franklin County | 51.6 |
| 23 | Greene County | 50.4 |
| 24 | Tioga County | 48.1 |
| 25 | Sullivan County | 48 |
| 26 | Erie County | 47.7 |
| 27 | Allegany County | 47.7 |
| 28 | Westchester County | 47.4 |
| 29 | Schuyler County | 46.9 |
| 30 | Ulster County | 45.2 |
| 31 | Monroe County | 43.5 |
| 32 | Livingston County | 43.3 |
| 33 | Chemung County | 41 |
| 34 | Oswego County | 40.5 |
| 35 | Wayne County | 39.3 |
| 36 | Herkimer County | 39.2 |
| 37 | Clinton County | 39 |
| 38 | Genesee County | 38.5 |
| 38 | Onondaga County | 38.5 |
| 40 | Schoharie County | 38.3 |
| 41 | Cortland County | 37.2 |
| 41 | Washington County | 37.2 |
| 43 | Orleans County | 35.7 |
| 44 | Niagara County | 35.2 |
| 45 | Rensselaer County | 34.9 |
| 46 | Fulton County | 31.5 |
| 47 | Cayuga County | 31 |
| 48 | Tompkins County | 30.9 |
| 49 | Schenectady County | 29.4 |
| 50 | Albany County | 29.1 |
| 51 | Lewis County | 28.7 |
| 52 | Jefferson County | 28.3 |
| 53 | Madison County | 28.2 |
| 54 | Warren County | 26.6 |
| 55 | Orange County | 26.2 |
| 56 | Nassau County | 25.9 |
| 57 | Ontario County | 24.1 |
| 58 | Suffolk County | 21.6 |
| 59 | Wyoming County | 21.3 |
| 60 | Dutchess County | 21 |
| 61 | Putnam County | 10.6 |
| 61 | Saratoga County | 10.6 |