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

All 67 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/pennsylvania-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Mifflin County | 93.8 |
| 2 | Philadelphia County | 88.1 |
| 3 | Jefferson County | 87 |
| 4 | Forest County | 84.1 |
| 5 | Juniata County | 81.2 |
| 6 | Cameron County | 77.9 |
| 7 | Crawford County | 77.2 |
| 8 | Union County | 73.5 |
| 9 | Fayette County | 73.5 |
| 10 | Sullivan County | 72.2 |
| 11 | Indiana County | 70.5 |
| 12 | Luzerne County | 67.8 |
| 13 | Clinton County | 67.6 |
| 14 | Potter County | 66 |
| 15 | Snyder County | 65.8 |
| 16 | Venango County | 63.7 |
| 17 | Clearfield County | 62.6 |
| 18 | McKean County | 62.3 |
| 19 | Lackawanna County | 60.7 |
| 20 | Schuylkill County | 60.6 |
| 21 | Cambria County | 60.4 |
| 22 | Lehigh County | 58.5 |
| 23 | Blair County | 57.6 |
| 24 | Tioga County | 57.4 |
| 25 | Clarion County | 56.8 |
| 26 | Montour County | 56.3 |
| 27 | Bedford County | 56 |
| 28 | Mercer County | 54.8 |
| 29 | Erie County | 53.4 |
| 30 | Northumberland County | 52.8 |
| 31 | Somerset County | 51.8 |
| 32 | Warren County | 50.9 |
| 33 | Centre County | 50.5 |
| 34 | Wayne County | 50.2 |
| 35 | Greene County | 49.3 |
| 36 | Berks County | 48.5 |
| 37 | Wyoming County | 46.3 |
| 38 | Huntingdon County | 46.2 |
| 39 | Lawrence County | 44.8 |
| 40 | Lancaster County | 43.5 |
| 41 | Armstrong County | 42.9 |
| 42 | Lycoming County | 41.9 |
| 43 | Pike County | 40.9 |
| 44 | Fulton County | 39.8 |
| 45 | Dauphin County | 37.9 |
| 46 | Bradford County | 37.8 |
| 47 | Beaver County | 37.7 |
| 48 | Adams County | 36.2 |
| 49 | Susquehanna County | 36.1 |
| 50 | Lebanon County | 35.2 |
| 51 | Carbon County | 35 |
| 52 | Monroe County | 34.5 |
| 53 | Perry County | 33.6 |
| 54 | Delaware County | 33 |
| 55 | Allegheny County | 32.7 |
| 56 | Franklin County | 32.4 |
| 57 | Northampton County | 30.6 |
| 58 | Westmoreland County | 30.2 |
| 59 | Columbia County | 30 |
| 60 | Elk County | 29.6 |
| 61 | Cumberland County | 23.6 |
| 62 | Washington County | 22.7 |
| 63 | Butler County | 20.8 |
| 64 | Montgomery County | 19.8 |
| 65 | Bucks County | 18.6 |
| 66 | York County | 17.1 |
| 67 | Chester County | 10.6 |