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County profile

Hendry County, Florida Community Health Profile

Environmental risk, disease burden, provider access, and SDOH scores for community health needs assessment and service line planning. Fused from EPA, CDC, CMS, and Census data into a single free view.

Opportunity Score

37Below Avgout of 100

Env

26

−25 vs U.S. mean

Disease

41

−9 vs U.S. mean

Provider

11

−39 vs U.S. mean

SDOH

67

+17 vs U.S. mean

FIPS: 12051Population: 43,333Risk overview: Near national averages

Specific health risk patterns

Hendry County, FL: 4 specific risk patterns triggered

Each pattern below combines a specific environmental exposure with a population that is more vulnerable to that exposure. When both are present at meaningful levels in Hendry County, the pattern triggers. These are the most concrete data points for documenting a significant health need in a Community Health Needs Assessment and for planning where services or community investment would land hardest.

Internally, we call these “Compound Signals.” Each is a versioned, weighted composite scored against the national distribution. The full formula and citations live on the methodology page.

Field Burden· 90Very Highlow confidence

Pesticide intensity at 166.4 kg per sq mi, summer max temperatures averaging 92.1°F.

Pesticide + heat exposure × Farmworker population

Defend this finding — full lineage to source data3 sources cited
Field Burdenneeds review

Hendry County: 90/100 (elevated above the 70th-percentile threshold)

Pesticide intensity × summer heat × farmworker population proxy. Surfaces counties where outdoor agricultural workers face simultaneous heat-illness and pesticide-exposure risk.

Weighted composite of pesticide_density_pct_high + summer_max_temp + farmworker_proxy (component weights documented in the gold pipeline manifest, ticket #90)

Methodology. Demographic identifies the population HRSA 330(g) migrant/seasonal worker centers were created to serve. v1 weights are pending finalization — see ticket #90 — and the score is published with medium confidence pending the curation pass.

Threshold. Elevated when score ≥ 70th national percentile across all US counties evaluated for this signal

Peer set. All US counties evaluated for the signal (~3,222, less coverage gaps)

Components (3)

Pesticide density rank (kg per square mile, EPest_HIGH)weighted leg

66th percentile

National percentile rank of pesticide application intensity per square mile, conservative-against-undercounting (EPest_HIGH) basis.

USGSPesticide National Synthesis Project (PNSP)

Vintage: PNSP 2019 (preliminary) · Refresh: Annual when published · Lag: 2–3 years

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How it's measured. Total kg / county land area in sq mi, then rank-percentile against all PNSP-covered US counties. EPest_HIGH is the regional-pool imputation that errs against undercounting.

Caveat. PNSP is on medium-low update reliability — see pesticide_total_kg caveat.

Coverage. 3,054 of 3,222 US counties

Average summer maximum temperatureweighted leg

92.1 °F

Mean of the daily maximum temperature across the meteorological summer (June–August).

NOAAApplied Climate Information System (ACIS) — RCC-ACIS

Vintage: Multi-year mean (2018–2023 typical) · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: Current year

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How it's measured. NOAA ACIS aggregates GHCN-Daily station observations to county-level summer (JJA) daily-max means using inverse-distance weighting. Smooths year-to-year noise; captures the structural heat profile.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Farmworker exposure proxy (USDA NASS livestock + crop area)weighted legneeds review

Composite proxy for outdoor agricultural worker exposure, derived from USDA NASS livestock counts and crop acreage indicators.

USDANASS — National Agricultural Statistics Service

Vintage: NASS Quick Stats current vintage · Refresh: Annual · Lag: 1–2 years

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How it's measured. Weighted blend of farmworker-intensive crop acreage and livestock operations, used as a proxy for the population that HRSA 330(g) migrant/seasonal worker centers were created to serve. Direct farmworker counts are unreliable below state level; this proxy is the structural-pattern stand-in.

Coverage. Counties with non-zero ag activity

Heat Vulnerability· 84Highhigh confidence

27 days above 95°F against a heart-disease + diabetes prevalence of 8.0% + 16.8%.

Extreme heat exposure × Heat-vulnerable population

Defend this finding — full lineage to source data5 sources cited
Heat Vulnerability

Hendry County: 84/100 (elevated above the 70th-percentile threshold)

Extreme heat exposure × cardiometabolic comorbidity × cardiology access deficit. Surfaces counties where a hot-day mortality event would land hardest.

0.40 × percentile(summer_max_temp) + 0.30 × percentile(chd_diabetes_blend) + 0.30 × percentile(cardiology_access_deficit)

Methodology. Heat-related cardiovascular mortality is the canonical climate-health linkage. The cardiometabolic blend identifies populations with the comorbidity profile that most amplifies heat-event mortality; the cardiology access leg captures whether the local system can absorb a heat-event surge.

Threshold. Elevated when score ≥ 70th national percentile across all US counties evaluated for this signal

Peer set. All US counties evaluated for the signal (~3,222, less coverage gaps)

Evidence base

  • · Bobb JF et al. 'Heat-related mortality and adaptation to heat in the United States.' Environmental Health Perspectives 2014.
  • · Khatana SAM et al. 'Association of extreme heat with all-cause mortality in the contiguous US.' JAMA Network Open 2022.

Components (3)

Average summer maximum temperature40%

92.1 °F

Mean of the daily maximum temperature across the meteorological summer (June–August).

NOAAApplied Climate Information System (ACIS) — RCC-ACIS

Vintage: Multi-year mean (2018–2023 typical) · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: Current year

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How it's measured. NOAA ACIS aggregates GHCN-Daily station observations to county-level summer (JJA) daily-max means using inverse-distance weighting. Smooths year-to-year noise; captures the structural heat profile.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Coronary heart disease + diabetes blend30%

60/40 dominant/secondary percentile blend of CHD and diabetes prevalence.

0.6 × max(percentile(chd), percentile(diabetes)) + 0.4 × min(percentile(chd), percentile(diabetes))

Methodology. Heat-vulnerability cardiometabolic cluster — counties with both conditions elevated face compounding heat-event mortality risk. Same dominant/secondary rule as the asthma+COPD blend.

Components (2)

Coronary heart disease prevalenceweighted leg

8.0%

Percent of adults age 18+ self-reporting coronary heart disease diagnosis.

CDCPLACES — Local Data for Better Health

Vintage: PLACES 2022–2023 · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: 1–2 years

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How it's measured. PLACES small-area estimation from BRFSS self-report. Self-reported CHD undercounts asymptomatic disease.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Diabetes prevalenceweighted leg

16.8%

Percent of adults age 18+ self-reporting diabetes diagnosis (excludes gestational).

CDCPLACES — Local Data for Better Health

Vintage: PLACES 2022–2023 · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: 1–2 years

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How it's measured. PLACES small-area estimation from BRFSS self-report. Excludes gestational diabetes per the BRFSS question framing.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Cardiology access deficit30%

Inverted national percentile rank of cardiologists per 100K, with a 50/50 in-county/neighbor-county adjacency adjustment.

100 − [0.5 × percentile(cardiology_per_100k, this county) + 0.5 × percentile(cardiology_per_100k, neighbor counties weighted by population)]

Methodology. Same adjacency-adjusted inversion as pulmonology deficit. Reduces false positives near major cardiac centers.

Components (2)

Cardiologists per 100,000 population50%

17.2 providers / 100K

Active cardiology specialists practicing in the county, normalized to population.

CMSNPPES — National Plan and Provider Enumeration System

Vintage: Current month · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: Same month

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How it's measured. NPPES registry filtered to active cardiology taxonomy codes, geocoded to practice address, summed per county, divided by Census population estimate.

Caveat. NPPES is registration-time data, not practice attestation. The 50/50 adjacency adjustment helps but does not eliminate location noise.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Cardiologists per 100,000 populationneighbor adjusted

17.2 providers / 100K

Active cardiology specialists practicing in the county, normalized to population.

CMSNPPES — National Plan and Provider Enumeration System

Vintage: Current month · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: Same month

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How it's measured. NPPES registry filtered to active cardiology taxonomy codes, geocoded to practice address, summed per county, divided by Census population estimate.

Caveat. NPPES is registration-time data, not practice attestation. The 50/50 adjacency adjustment helps but does not eliminate location noise.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Industrial Burden· 80Highlow confidence

44,685,749 lbs of TRI-reported industrial releases (6,641,882 lbs of carcinogens).

Industrial emissions exposure × Surrounding population

Defend this finding — full lineage to source data5 sources cited
Industrial Burden

Hendry County: 80/100 (elevated above the 70th-percentile threshold)

TRI facility density × PFAS contamination × pesticide use × total provider access deficit. Captures cumulative industrial environmental load on the surrounding population.

0.35 × percentile(tri_facility_count) + 0.25 × percentile(pfas_severity_score) + 0.20 × percentile(pesticide_total_kg) + 0.20 × percentile(total_provider_access_deficit)

Methodology. Combines three distinct industrial exposure modes (point-source releases, drinking-water contamination, pesticide use) with a generalist provider-access leg since industrial pollution health effects span multiple specialties. Methodology v1.8.0.

Threshold. Elevated when score ≥ 70th national percentile across all US counties evaluated for this signal

Peer set. All US counties evaluated for the signal (~3,222, less coverage gaps)

Components (4)

TRI facility count35%needs review

Number of EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reporting facilities in the county.

EPAToxics Release Inventory (TRI) via Envirofacts

Vintage: TRI 2023 reporting year · Refresh: Annual · Lag: 18 months

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How it's measured. Count of facilities reporting any TRI-listed chemical release in the most recent reporting year. TRI thresholds (10K-25K lb manufacturing; 500 lb persistent-bioaccumulative) mean smaller polluters are excluded from this count.

Caveat. TRI is industrial self-report. Underreporting is documented for some sectors and chemicals; the count is a floor, not a ceiling.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties (zero-inflated; many rural counties = 0)

PFAS contamination severity score25%

Composite 0–100 severity score for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) contamination in the county's drinking water and environment.

EPAUCMR5 (Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule) + ECHO

Vintage: UCMR5 sampling 2023–2025 · Refresh: Quarterly · Lag: 3–6 months

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How it's measured. Composite score combining detection frequency, peak concentration relative to EPA Health Advisory Levels, and number of PFAS species detected from UCMR5 public water system sampling and ECHO enforcement records.

Caveat. UCMR5 only samples public water systems serving 3,300+ people; private well users in small or rural communities are not represented.

Coverage. Counties with at least one UCMR5-eligible PWS

Total pesticide use (kg/year)20%

192.3K kg/year

Total estimated agricultural pesticide use in the county for the year, in kilograms (EPest_HIGH conservative estimate).

USGSPesticide National Synthesis Project (PNSP)

Vintage: PNSP 2019 (preliminary; 2018 unavailable; 2020+ unreleased) · Refresh: Annual when published · Lag: 2–3 years (and the program is on medium-low update reliability)

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How it's measured. USGS PNSP estimates county-level pesticide application from USDA Census of Agriculture acreage by crop, multiplied by crop-specific application rates from proprietary surveys. EPest_HIGH is the regional-pool imputation that's conservative against undercounting.

Caveat. PNSP funding was nearly cut in 2023 and the program now publishes irregularly. 2018 has no data; 2020+ is unreleased as of methodology v1.8.0. Use with the data-quality note shown on the platform.

Coverage. 3,054 of 3,222 US counties

Total provider access deficit20%

Inverted national percentile rank of total healthcare specialists per 100K, with a 50/50 adjacency adjustment.

100 − [0.5 × percentile(total_specialists_per_100k, this county) + 0.5 × percentile(total_specialists_per_100k, neighbor counties weighted by population)]

Methodology. Same shape as the specialty-specific deficits. Used by Industrial Burden where the relevant access dimension isn't a single specialty (industrial pollution health effects span pulmonary, cardiovascular, oncologic, and developmental medicine).

Components (2)

Total healthcare specialists per 100,000 population50%needs review

All active healthcare specialists in the county, normalized to population.

CMSNPPES — National Plan and Provider Enumeration System

Vintage: Current month · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: Same month

Source page →

How it's measured. NPPES registry — all specialty taxonomy codes — geocoded to practice address, summed per county, divided by Census population estimate.

Caveat. NPPES is registration-time data, not practice attestation.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Total healthcare specialists per 100,000 populationneighbor adjustedneeds review

All active healthcare specialists in the county, normalized to population.

CMSNPPES — National Plan and Provider Enumeration System

Vintage: Current month · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: Same month

Source page →

How it's measured. NPPES registry — all specialty taxonomy codes — geocoded to practice address, summed per county, divided by Census population estimate.

Caveat. NPPES is registration-time data, not practice attestation.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Heat-Dialysis Vulnerability· 71Highmedium confidence

22 dialysis-dependent Medicare beneficiaries (2.75 per 1k) and 27 days above 95°F.

Extreme heat exposure × Dialysis-dependent population

Defend this finding — full lineage to source data3 sources cited
Heat-Dialysis Vulnerability

Hendry County: 71/100 (elevated above the 70th-percentile threshold)

Extreme heat × dialysis-dependent Medicare beneficiaries × chronic kidney disease prevalence. Anchored on Taiwan NHIRD findings of 5.3× CKD heat-hospitalization rate, 9× ESRD heat-stroke mortality.

0.40 × percentile(summer_max_temp) + 0.35 × percentile(dialysis_per_1k_medicare) + 0.25 × percentile(kidney_prevalence)

Methodology. Dialysis patients are uniquely heat-vulnerable: missed dialysis sessions during heat-related power loss or transport disruption cause electrolyte cascades within hours. The Taiwan NHIRD analysis (NHIRD = National Health Insurance Research Database) is the strongest population-level evidence we have for the magnitude of the effect.

Threshold. Elevated when score ≥ 70th national percentile across all US counties evaluated for this signal

Peer set. All US counties evaluated for the signal (~3,222, less coverage gaps)

Evidence base

  • · Lin Y-K et al. 'Extreme heat and ESRD heat-stroke mortality.' Taiwan NHIRD analysis.
  • · Remigio RV et al. 'Association of extreme heat events with hospital admission or mortality among patients with end-stage renal disease.' JAMA Network Open 2019.

Components (3)

Average summer maximum temperature40%

92.1 °F

Mean of the daily maximum temperature across the meteorological summer (June–August).

NOAAApplied Climate Information System (ACIS) — RCC-ACIS

Vintage: Multi-year mean (2018–2023 typical) · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: Current year

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How it's measured. NOAA ACIS aggregates GHCN-Daily station observations to county-level summer (JJA) daily-max means using inverse-distance weighting. Smooths year-to-year noise; captures the structural heat profile.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

Dialysis-dependent Medicare beneficiaries per 1,00035%

2.8 per 1,000 Medicare benes

Rate of Medicare beneficiaries on at-home or in-center dialysis per 1,000 county Medicare beneficiaries.

HHS / ASPRemPOWER Map — Medicare beneficiary DME data

Vintage: Current month · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: Same month

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How it's measured. HHS ASPR derives dialysis-dependent counts from Medicare claims for ESRD-related at-home or in-center service codes, aggregated to county. Reported per 1,000 county Medicare beneficiaries to normalize for size.

Caveat. emPOWER masks counts of 1–10 to the literal value 11 for beneficiary privacy. Per-1k rates derived from masked counts respect the same floor — a small county showing exactly 11 beneficiaries may have anywhere from 1 to 11 actual.

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties (subject to the 1–10 mask)

Chronic kidney disease prevalence25%

Percent of adults age 18+ self-reporting chronic kidney disease diagnosis.

CDCPLACES — Local Data for Better Health

Vintage: PLACES 2022–2023 · Refresh: Monthly · Lag: 1–2 years

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How it's measured. PLACES small-area estimation from BRFSS self-report. CKD self-report substantially undercounts true prevalence (most CKD is asymptomatic until late stages).

Coverage. All 3,222 US counties

2 signals near threshold: Runoff Burden (60) · Outage Vulnerability (59)

8 signals evaluated. See all signal methodologies →

Where Hendry County stands

Health risks here sit near national averages

Hendry County, Florida has elevated social and economic challenges — poverty, housing instability, transportation barriers, and uninsured rates rank worse than 67% of U.S. counties. Pollution exposure, chronic disease rates, and doctor access all sit closer to the middle of the national distribution. The pattern here is social and economic conditions driving downstream health risk rather than a full pile-up across all four areas. Effective response usually requires upstream community investment alongside any clinical strategy.

Methodology: when three or more of the four major health-risk areas (pollution, chronic disease, doctor access, social and economic conditions) score above the 70th national percentile, we call the pattern “multi-pillar convergence.” The scoring approach and citations live on the methodology page.

Risk profile

Hendry County compared to Florida and the U.S. average

Four health-risk scores on a 0-100 scale, where 50 is the U.S. average. A higher score means that area is a stronger contributor to community health risk.

Hendry County four-pillar profile20406080100Disease BurdenEnv RiskSDOH StressProvider Gap

SDOH Stress (67) is moderately worse than the U.S. average of 50.

Environmental Risk (26), Disease Burden (41), and Provider Gap (11) are at or better than the U.S. average.

  • Hendry County
  • Florida state mean
  • U.S. mean (50)
  • Signal threshold (70)

Current Conditions

Today's air quality, fires, and weather alerts

Live operational data for Hendry County: real-time AQI from EPA AirNow, active fires from NIFC, and any National Weather Service advisories. Updated daily.

Current Air Quality
53Moderate
PM2.5: 10.3 µg/m³ · 2026-05-28
Source: EPA AirNow
Nearest Active Wildfire
Shell
285 km away · 0 acres
0 fires within 100 km · 0 within 200 km
Source: NIFC active fire perimeters

Environmental Factors

Air, water, and exposure indicators

Top environmental indicators for Hendry County with state and national benchmarks. Full profile covers 40+ metrics on the platform.

IndicatorHendry CountyFL avgUS avg
EPA AQS / EJSCREEN
7.0
µg/m³
-10% vs FL
7.87.4
EPA AQS / EJSCREEN
58.8
ppb
+4.8% vs FL
56.157.1
Traffic Proximity
EJSCREEN
92,605
index
-74% vs FL
351,155291,320
NOAA ACIS
27
days/yr
+52% vs FL
1825
Superfund Proximity
EPA EJSCREEN
0.00
score
-100% vs FL
0.090.16
EPA EJSCREEN
2.63
score
+6.2% vs FL
2.483.39

Wildfire-Attributable Air Quality

Smoke PM2.5 the EPA doesn't count

Stanford peer-reviewed wildfire-attributable PM2.5 for Hendry County. The EPA classifies wildfire smoke as "exceptional events" and excludes it from official AQS monitoring; Childs/Burke fills that gap with daily county-level data.

Annual mean wildfire PM2.5
0.60 µg/m³
7% of the 9 µg/m³ federal annual standard, on top of background air
Smoke days > 55 µg/m³
0
EPA “unhealthy for sensitive groups” threshold · Negligible
Smoke days > 100 µg/m³
0
EPA “unhealthy” threshold · acute exposure days

Source: Childs et al, Environmental Science & Technology 2022 (Harvard Dataverse 10.7910/DVN/DJVMTV). Latest year shipped: 2020. Burke et al, Nature 2023 estimate that the EPA AQS network undercounts wildfire-attributable PM2.5 by 10–30% in fire-affected counties. Coverage is CONUS only. Full methodology →

Outage Burden

When the grid goes dark

DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I customer-hours-out for Hendry County in 2024. The fraction is population-normalized via the Maximum Customer Count denominator (Brelsford et al, Sci Data 2024) so it's directly comparable across counties of any size.

Customer-hours-out, 2024
0.08%
of all customer-hours in the year · Routine
Peak customers out
9,121
in a single 15-minute interval · the year's worst quarter-hour
Intervals > 10,000 out
0
count of 15-minute slots with 10k+ customers out · surge events

Source: DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I (figshare 10.6084/m9.figshare.24237376). Latest year shipped: 2024. Coverage: 3,050 of 3,222 US counties; AK and some sparsely-served rural counties may have no data. Full methodology →

Severe Weather History

Recorded storm events and damages

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database for Hendry County, 2010–2026. Cumulative + last 5 years of recorded weather events with deaths, injuries, and damages.

Total events (20102026)
42
21 in the last 5 years
Deaths · injuries
1· 1
cumulative across all event types
Property + crop damage
$115K
cumulative reported damages
Events by type
Thunderstorm25
Tornado13
Flood4

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (full history rollup). NOAA buckets ~50 raw event_type strings into 8 health-relevant categories. Coverage: 3,107 of 3,222 US counties; the absent are typically Alaska boroughs and territories where NOAA codes events as forecast zones rather than counties. Full methodology →

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Livestock density and federal-permit confidence

USDA Census of Agriculture (vintage 2022) animal-unit totals for Hendry County, normalized to land area and ranked nationally. Animal Units (AU) follow the EPA federal definition under 40 CFR §122.23.

CAFO density rank
68thpercentile · Moderate
National rank of animal units per square mile.
Animal units per sq mi
112.0
Federal CAFO thresholds: 300 AU = “Medium”, 1,000 AU = “Large.” Total AU: 129,457 across 1156 sq mi.
Dominant species
Cattle (beef)
Top contributor to the AU total. Other species may also be present.
Low federal coverage. Likely <20% of large CAFOs federally NPDES-permitted in this state (EPA-IG ~32% national average is heavily skewed toward delegated states).

Source: USDA Census of Agriculture 2022 (head counts) + EPA 40 CFR §122.23 (animal-unit conversion). The CAFO composite deliberately omits NPDES facility counts because federal coverage averages ~32% nationally per EPA-IG and is heavily state-skewed — adding it as a numerator would systematically bias the index toward delegated states. Full methodology →

Pesticide Use

USGS Pesticide National Synthesis

Annual pesticide application rollup for Hendry County from the USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project. Most recent year on file: 2019. Mass figures use the EPest_HIGH estimate (the conservative-against-undercounting framing); EPest_LOW is also retained on the underlying data.

Density rank (2019)
66thpercentile · Moderate
National rank of kilograms applied per square mile.
Total mass applied
192.3K kg
166.4 kg/sq mi across 36 distinct compounds.
Top compounds by mass
  1. 1.GLYPHOSATE95.1K kg
  2. 2.CHLORPYRIFOS19.1K kg
  3. 3.DIURON17.0K kg
  4. 4.2,4-D16.2K kg
  5. 5.TRICLOPYR11.7K kg

Source: USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project (2019). USGS PNSP nationally; year 2019 is preliminary; 2018 unavailable; 2020+ not released. Update reliability medium-low. Full methodology →

Health Outcomes

Chronic disease prevalence

CDC PLACES model-based prevalence estimates for adults in Hendry County. Full profile covers 15+ health outcomes plus mortality on the platform.

Hendry County chronic disease prevalence vs. CDC PLACES national benchmarksDiabetes11.416.8Depression21.116.6Frequent mental distress (14+ days)14.518.5Coronary heart disease6.08.0COPD6.68.5Stroke3.24.2Cancer (any, excl. skin)7.16.2Current asthma (adults)9.89.4510152025Prevalence (%)
Hendry County adult disease prevalence vs. CDC PLACES national benchmarks, ranked by absolute divergence. Green connectors mark conditions where Hendry County is below the benchmark; terracotta where above.National benchmarkHendry County
ConditionHendry CountyFL avgUS avg
Current Asthma
% of adults with current asthma
9.4%
-4.3% vs FL
9.8%10.6%
COPD
% of adults with diagnosed COPD
8.5%
-4.4% vs FL
8.9%8.6%
Diabetes
% of adults with diagnosed diabetes
16.8%
+18% vs FL
14.2%13.7%
Coronary Heart Disease
% of adults with CHD
8.0%
-5.3% vs FL
8.4%7.9%
Depression
% of adults ever diagnosed with depression
16.6%
-9.3% vs FL
18.3%23.1%
Frequent Mental Distress
% of adults with 14+ poor mental health days/month
18.5%
+8.5% vs FL
17.1%17.2%

Vulnerable Medicare Population

Who needs the grid to stay alive

Medicare beneficiaries in Hendry County who depend on electricity for dialysis, oxygen, or other powered medical equipment. From the HHS emPOWER program, which CMS publishes monthly so emergency managers know who to find first when the power goes out.

PopulationCountPer 1,000 Medicare
Total Medicare beneficiaries
Denominator
7,992
Electricity-dependent (any DME)
Ventilators, oxygen concentrators, IV pumps, motorized wheelchairs
306
38.3
-12% vs FL
Dialysis-dependent
ESRD beneficiaries needing in-center or home dialysis
22
2.75
-2.2% vs FL
Oxygen-dependent
Home oxygen concentrators (outage-vulnerable)
84
10.5
-18% vs FL

Source: HHS emPOWER Map (ArcGIS county layer), May 2026. Counts of 1–10 are masked as “≤10” per HHS privacy rules; per-1,000 rates are derived and still respect the privacy floor. Full methodology →

Provider Supply

Specialty physician density per 100,000 residents

Active providers in Hendry County from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Compared to the U.S. average for each specialty. Adjacency adjustment is applied separately in the Provider Gap pillar score.

SpecialtyHendry CountyUS avg
Primary Care
Family medicine, internal medicine, general practice, pediatrics.
161.8
per 100k
+24% vs US
130.4
Cardiology
Cardiovascular disease, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology.
17.2
per 100k
+42% vs US
12.1
Pulmonology
Respiratory disease specialists — relevant to PM2.5 and wildfire smoke exposure.
7.3
per 100k
+22% vs US
6.0
Psychiatry
Mental health prescribers; complements behavioral health access.
17.2
per 100k
-8.1% vs US
18.7
Oncology / Hematology
Cancer specialists.
7.3
per 100k
+15% vs US
6.4
Neurology
Neurological disease specialists.
9.8
per 100k
+24% vs US
7.9

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Counts reflect providers with a primary practice address in Hendry County; specialty is taken from the provider's primary NUCC taxonomy code.

Pro analytical view

What drives this county's scores

The flagged signals and service-line opportunities for Hendry County, plus the methodology decomposition behind each score. Visible to Pro, Consultant Studio, and Enterprise tiers.

Where to focus

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Top flagged signals + service lines are a Pro feature

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Score decomposition

Each named signal's component breakdown with weights. The bar length is the component's percentile rank; the parenthetical is its weight in the final blend.

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Tract drill-down

Census tracts inside Hendry County

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What else is available for Hendry County

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Full Environmental Profile

All 40+ environmental metrics including toxic releases, hazardous site proximity, PFAS detection, pesticide exposure, and climate stress indicators.

Service Line Opportunities

See how Hendry County ranks for respiratory, oncology, cardiovascular, renal, endocrine, and behavioral health service line opportunity.

Multi-County Comparison

Compare Hendry County side-by-side with neighboring counties across every dimension.

Trend Analysis

5-year sparklines for health outcomes, SDOH measures, and mortality rates so you can see where the county is heading, not just where it is today.

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Nearby Counties

Counties bordering Hendry County

Adjacent county profiles with their own scores and environmental health data. Source: Census Bureau County Adjacency File.

Data sources: EPA AQS, EPA EJSCREEN, EPA TRI, CDC PLACES, CDC WONDER, CMS NPPES, Census ACS, County Health Rankings, NOAA ACIS, NCI State Cancer Profiles. Every score on this page is derived from publicly available federal data, fused by the Banana Analytics pipeline.

Methodology: See the full scoring methodology (v1.2.0) for weights, sensitivity analysis, and validation against county-level mortality data.

Last refreshed: May 28, 2026