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

All 95 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/tennessee-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Grundy County | 98.4 |
| 2 | Hancock County | 96 |
| 3 | Lake County | 95.6 |
| 4 | Haywood County | 94.3 |
| 5 | Hardeman County | 93.4 |
| 6 | Jackson County | 93 |
| 7 | Johnson County | 88.8 |
| 8 | Hardin County | 88.8 |
| 9 | Perry County | 88.6 |
| 10 | Lauderdale County | 88 |
| 11 | Fentress County | 87.3 |
| 12 | Cocke County | 86.1 |
| 13 | Polk County | 85 |
| 14 | Decatur County | 84.7 |
| 15 | Carter County | 83.1 |
| 16 | Henry County | 82.2 |
| 17 | Cumberland County | 81.6 |
| 18 | Crockett County | 81.5 |
| 19 | Campbell County | 81.5 |
| 20 | Wayne County | 79.6 |
| 21 | Stewart County | 79.3 |
| 22 | Monroe County | 78.5 |
| 23 | Pickett County | 78.2 |
| 24 | Meigs County | 77.8 |
| 25 | Hawkins County | 76.9 |
| 26 | Greene County | 76.4 |
| 27 | Dyer County | 75.2 |
| 28 | Bledsoe County | 73.4 |
| 29 | Tipton County | 73.2 |
| 30 | Madison County | 72.9 |
| 31 | Shelby County | 72.6 |
| 32 | Grainger County | 72.5 |
| 33 | Scott County | 72 |
| 34 | Roane County | 71.4 |
| 35 | Obion County | 71.3 |
| 36 | Clay County | 70.1 |
| 37 | Claiborne County | 69.8 |
| 38 | Carroll County | 69.3 |
| 39 | Macon County | 69.1 |
| 40 | Lincoln County | 68.4 |
| 41 | Lawrence County | 68.2 |
| 42 | Loudon County | 68.1 |
| 43 | Giles County | 67.4 |
| 44 | Warren County | 67.3 |
| 45 | Hamblen County | 66.1 |
| 46 | Humphreys County | 66.1 |
| 47 | Gibson County | 65.4 |
| 48 | Benton County | 65.4 |
| 49 | Marion County | 64 |
| 50 | White County | 63 |
| 51 | Fayette County | 62.7 |
| 52 | Henderson County | 61.9 |
| 53 | McMinn County | 59.3 |
| 54 | Sevier County | 58.2 |
| 55 | Rhea County | 57.8 |
| 56 | Hickman County | 57.3 |
| 57 | Moore County | 56.5 |
| 58 | Jefferson County | 55.6 |
| 59 | Unicoi County | 54.7 |
| 60 | Sequatchie County | 54.2 |
| 61 | DeKalb County | 54.1 |
| 62 | McNairy County | 53.4 |
| 63 | Cannon County | 51.8 |
| 64 | Chester County | 51.5 |
| 65 | Bedford County | 51.1 |
| 66 | Anderson County | 49.9 |
| 67 | Morgan County | 47.8 |
| 68 | Union County | 46.9 |
| 69 | Overton County | 45.5 |
| 70 | Houston County | 44.8 |
| 70 | Sullivan County | 44.8 |
| 72 | Lewis County | 44.6 |
| 73 | Putnam County | 43 |
| 74 | Coffee County | 40.5 |
| 75 | Davidson County | 40.3 |
| 76 | Franklin County | 38 |
| 77 | Washington County | 36.8 |
| 78 | Hamilton County | 36.4 |
| 79 | Weakley County | 30.3 |
| 80 | Dickson County | 29.1 |
| 81 | Van Buren County | 25.6 |
| 82 | Blount County | 24.9 |
| 83 | Bradley County | 24.6 |
| 84 | Robertson County | 24.5 |
| 85 | Maury County | 24.1 |
| 86 | Knox County | 22.7 |
| 87 | Montgomery County | 20.5 |
| 88 | Cheatham County | 18.7 |
| 89 | Rutherford County | 15.5 |
| 90 | Sumner County | 14.8 |
| 91 | Marshall County | 10.6 |
| 91 | Smith County | 10.6 |
| 91 | Trousdale County | 10.6 |
| 91 | Williamson County | 10.6 |
| 91 | Wilson County | 10.6 |