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Renville County, North Dakota 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

45Moderateout of 100

Env

24

−26 vs U.S. mean

Disease

31

−19 vs U.S. mean

Provider

95

+45 vs U.S. mean

SDOH

40

−10 vs U.S. mean

FIPS: 38075Population: 2,279Risk overview: Near national averages

Specific health risk patterns

No specific risk patterns triggered in Renville County

We evaluated 7 specific patterns for this county. None scored above the elevated threshold or close to it. More on how these patterns are defined.

Where Renville County stands

Health risks here sit near national averages

Renville County, North Dakota has elevated doctor and specialist shortages — primary care and specialty access rank worse than 95% of U.S. counties. Pollution exposure, chronic disease rates, and social and economic conditions all sit closer to the middle of the national distribution. The issue here is healthcare infrastructure — not enough providers for the population — rather than vulnerability piling up across multiple dimensions. Counties in this profile are candidates for provider-recruitment and capacity-building investment.

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

Renville County compared to North Dakota 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.

Renville County four-pillar profile20406080100Disease BurdenEnv RiskSDOH StressProvider Gap

Provider Gap (95) is worse than at least 70% of U.S. counties, the largest contributor to community health risk here.

Environmental Risk (24), Disease Burden (31), and SDOH Stress (40) are at or better than the U.S. average.

  • Renville County
  • North Dakota state mean
  • U.S. mean (50)
  • Signal threshold (70)

Current Conditions

Today's air quality, fires, and weather alerts

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

Current Air Quality
28Good
PM2.5: 5.1 µg/m³ · 2026-05-28
Source: EPA AirNow
Nearest Active Wildfire
No nearby active fires
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 Renville County with state and national benchmarks. Full profile covers 40+ metrics on the platform.

IndicatorRenville CountyND avgUS avg
EPA AQS / EJSCREEN
5.3
µg/m³
-0.0% vs ND
5.37.4
EPA AQS / EJSCREEN
48.6
ppb
-3.5% vs ND
50.457.1
Traffic Proximity
EJSCREEN
3,944
index
-96% vs ND
88,580291,320
NOAA ACIS
1
days/yr
-67% vs ND
325
Superfund Proximity
EPA EJSCREEN
0.00
score
0.000.16
EPA EJSCREEN
0.00
score
-100% vs ND
0.203.39

Wildfire-Attributable Air Quality

Smoke PM2.5 the EPA doesn't count

Stanford peer-reviewed wildfire-attributable PM2.5 for Renville 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
0.66 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 Renville 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
0.04%
of all customer-hours in the year · Routine
Peak customers out
854
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 Renville County, 2010–2026. Cumulative + last 5 years of recorded weather events with deaths, injuries, and damages.

Total events (20102026)
82
19 in the last 5 years
Deaths · injuries
0· 0
cumulative across all event types
Property + crop damage
$7M
cumulative reported damages
Events by type
Thunderstorm69
Flood8
Tornado5

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 Renville County, normalized to land area and ranked nationally. Animal Units (AU) follow the EPA federal definition under 40 CFR §122.23.

CAFO density rank
13thpercentile · Low
National rank of animal units per square mile.
Animal units per sq mi
3.7
Federal CAFO thresholds: 300 AU = “Medium”, 1,000 AU = “Large.” Total AU: 3,262 across 877 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 Renville 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)
71thpercentile · Elevated
National rank of kilograms applied per square mile.
Total mass applied
192.9K kg
219.9 kg/sq mi across 28 distinct compounds.
Top compounds by mass
  1. 1.GLYPHOSATE149.6K kg
  2. 2.2,4-D10.1K kg
  3. 3.BROMOXYNIL9.8K kg
  4. 4.METOLACHLOR & METOLACHLOR-S4.1K kg
  5. 5.METOLACHLOR-S4.1K 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 Renville County. Full profile covers 15+ health outcomes plus mortality on the platform.

Renville County chronic disease prevalence vs. CDC PLACES national benchmarksCancer (any, excl. skin)7.19.8Depression21.119.7Coronary heart disease6.07.2Frequent mental distress (14+ days)14.513.7Diabetes11.411.1COPD6.66.9Stroke3.23.5Current asthma (adults)9.89.9510152025Prevalence (%)
Renville County adult disease prevalence vs. CDC PLACES national benchmarks, ranked by absolute divergence. Green connectors mark conditions where Renville County is below the benchmark; terracotta where above.National benchmarkRenville County
ConditionRenville CountyND avgUS avg
Current Asthma
% of adults with current asthma
9.9%
-3.1% vs ND
10.2%10.6%
COPD
% of adults with diagnosed COPD
6.9%
-9.6% vs ND
7.6%8.6%
Diabetes
% of adults with diagnosed diabetes
11.1%
-9.4% vs ND
12.3%13.7%
Coronary Heart Disease
% of adults with CHD
7.2%
-10% vs ND
8.0%7.9%
Depression
% of adults ever diagnosed with depression
19.7%
-1.5% vs ND
20.0%23.1%
Frequent Mental Distress
% of adults with 14+ poor mental health days/month
13.7%
-1.7% vs ND
13.9%17.2%

Vulnerable Medicare Population

Who needs the grid to stay alive

Medicare beneficiaries in Renville 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
549
Electricity-dependent (any DME)
Ventilators, oxygen concentrators, IV pumps, motorized wheelchairs
44
80.2
+17% vs ND
Dialysis-dependent
ESRD beneficiaries needing in-center or home dialysis
0
0.00
-100% vs ND
Oxygen-dependent
Home oxygen concentrators (outage-vulnerable)
0
0.0
-100% vs ND

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 Renville 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.

SpecialtyRenville CountyUS avg
Primary Care
Family medicine, internal medicine, general practice, pediatrics.
131.8
per 100k
+1.0% vs US
130.4

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Counts reflect providers with a primary practice address in Renville 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 Renville County, plus the methodology decomposition behind each score. Visible to Pro, Consultant Studio, and Enterprise tiers.

Where to focus

Pro feature

Top flagged signals + service lines are a Pro feature

See how each signal's components blend into its final score, and which signals + service lines this county should prioritize. Available on Professional, Consultant Studio, and Enterprise.

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.

Pro feature

Score decomposition is a Pro feature

See how each signal's components blend into its final score, and which signals + service lines this county should prioritize. Available on Professional, Consultant Studio, and Enterprise.

Tract drill-down

Census tracts inside Renville County

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Tract-level drill-down is a Pro feature

See how each signal's components blend into its final score, and which signals + service lines this county should prioritize. Available on Professional, Consultant Studio, and Enterprise.

On the full platform

What else is available for Renville County

The page above is a subset. The free Community account unlocks the full single-county profile: every indicator, every data source, demographics, historical trends, and mortality data. Professional unlocks multi-county comparison, compound signal analysis, service line rankings, and consultant-ready PDF reports.

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

Multi-County Comparison

Compare Renville 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.

PDF Report Export

Generate a consultant-ready environmental health briefing for Renville County with methodology citations. Drops straight into a CHNA or grant application.

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Nearby Counties

Counties bordering Renville 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