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

All 53 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/north-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sioux County | 97.3 |
| 2 | Benson County | 93.7 |
| 3 | Rolette County | 91.6 |
| 4 | McIntosh County | 85.3 |
| 5 | Nelson County | 82.3 |
| 6 | Adams County | 75.5 |
| 7 | Grant County | 72.8 |
| 8 | Logan County | 70.1 |
| 9 | Divide County | 63.7 |
| 10 | Emmons County | 62.2 |
| 11 | Barnes County | 60.6 |
| 12 | Pembina County | 58.4 |
| 13 | Hettinger County | 57.8 |
| 14 | Golden Valley County | 56.9 |
| 15 | Cavalier County | 56 |
| 16 | Wells County | 44.6 |
| 17 | Griggs County | 41.9 |
| 18 | Dunn County | 41.7 |
| 19 | Dickey County | 40.4 |
| 20 | Mountrail County | 40.4 |
| 21 | Foster County | 38.7 |
| 22 | Bottineau County | 31.1 |
| 23 | Stutsman County | 26.2 |
| 24 | Richland County | 25.9 |
| 25 | LaMoure County | 24.3 |
| 26 | Ransom County | 22 |
| 27 | Steele County | 17.8 |
| 28 | McLean County | 17.6 |
| 29 | Stark County | 15.8 |
| 30 | Ramsey County | 15.3 |
| 31 | Grand Forks County | 14.4 |
| 32 | Slope County | 14.1 |
| 33 | Burleigh County | 13.8 |
| 34 | Walsh County | 13.6 |
| 35 | Bowman County | 12.2 |
| 36 | Mercer County | 11.4 |
| 36 | Pierce County | 11.4 |
| 38 | Billings County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Burke County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Cass County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Eddy County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Kidder County | 10.6 |
| 38 | McHenry County | 10.6 |
| 38 | McKenzie County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Morton County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Oliver County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Renville County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Sargent County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Sheridan County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Towner County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Traill County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Ward County | 10.6 |
| 38 | Williams County | 10.6 |