New York City’s ICU capacity shows the city was ill-equipped to handle a deadly outbreak compared to many far-less densely populated areas.

The Big Apple’s intensive-care bed capacity of about 2.7 per 10,000 residents over the age of 15 — 1,800 beds total — ranks No. 220 on a list of 305 US hospital regions studied by The Washington Post and Columbia University Professor Adam Sacarny.

New Orleans, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Baltimore, Nashville, Las Vegas and Detroit all have more ICU beds per capita than New York City.

Eastern Long Island, Anchorage and Palm Springs are even worse-off than NYC, according to 2016-2018 data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

Statewide, Albany is the only medical region with less ICU bed capacity than New York City, with 2.4/10,000.

The best place to get critically ill? The town of Slidell in Louisiana, outside New Orleans, with 11 ICU beds per 10,000 residents.

The worst, Fort Collins, Colorado, with only 1.

ICU numbers are changing rapidly as officials across the globe race the virus to equip cities with more beds, ventilators and protective gear before hospitals are inundated.

As of Friday afternoon, there were 5,250 hospitalizations in New York City due to coronavirus with 1,175 in the ICU, a 38 percent rise in ICU cases from Thursday night.

Statewide, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked New York to more than double its total number of 53,000 hospital beds by converting unused space into critical-care units and building new facilities.

At Columbia University Irving Medical Center, staffers have flipped rooms previously used for elective surgeries, which have been suspended amid the outbreak, to house ICU patients.

“[Operating rooms] have already been converted to ICUs, and an entire 26-bed floor is now fully renovated for conversion or ICU space,” Department of Surgery Chair Craig Smith wrote Thursday on Twitter.

New York City has only 2.7 intensive care unit beds per 10,000 people, according to an analysis of federal medicare and medicaid data by Columbia University’s Adam Sacarny and The Washington Post. By comparison, the small Louisiana swamp town, Slidell, has 10.6, more than any other medical region.

Here are where the critical care beds are located in NYC:

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center: 42

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center: 26

New York Community Hospital of Brooklyn: 7

Mount Sinai Hospital: 89

Richmond University Medical Center: 22

Mount Sinai West: 83

New York Presbyterian/Queens: 42

Brooklyn Hospital Center Downtown Campus: 39

Montefiore Medical Center: 92

Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center: 38

New York-Presbyterian Hospital: 334

Lenox Hill Hospital: 46

Jacobi Medical Center: 52

Elmhurst Hospital: 29

Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases: 25

Staten Island University Hospital: 106

Mount Sinai Beth Israel/Petrie Campus: 36

Maimonides Medical Center: 50

Coney Island Hospital: 31

Metropolitan Hospital Center: 24

Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center: 20

Kings County Hospital Center: 47

Bellevue Hospital Center: 57

NYU Langone Hospitals: 192

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center: 16

Queens Hospital Center: 16

Brookdale Hospital Medical Center: 35

New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital: 38

Harlem Hospital Center: 26

University Hospital of Brooklyn (Downstate): 31

North Central Bronx Hospital: 20

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital at South Shore: 16

Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center: 24

Interfaith Medical Center: 13

St. Barnabas Hospital: 26

Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2018 data

US medical regions with most ICU beds per 10,000 residents

Slidell, Louisiana: 10.6

Duluth, Minnesota: 7.5

Augusta, Georgia: 7.2

Florence, South Carolina: 7.2

Huntington, West Virginia: 7.2

Source: Analysis of 2016-2018 CMS data and Census counts by The Washington Post and Columbia University’s Adam Sacarny

ICU beds in New York medical regions per 10,000 residents

Elmira: 3.4

Buffalo: 3.1

New York City: 2.7

White Plains: 2.8

Rochester: 2.7

Syracuse: 2.7

Albany: 2.4

East Long Island: 2.3

Binghamton: 1.8

Source: Analysis of 2016-2018 CMS data and Census counts by the Washington Post and Columbia University’s Adam Sacarny