Natural hazards · Alakanuk

Alakanuk, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Alakanuk comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Alakanuk?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Alakanuk to be higher than in 0% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves.

Cold waves98%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Alakanuk faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Cold waves

98% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Inland floodingCoastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesDroughtTsunamis

Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Alakanuk flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Alakanuk.

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Alakanuk isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: the county.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

18flood-prone homes bought out and moved

2homes raised above flood level

Disasters that hit Alakanuk

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Alakanuk itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Alakanuk.

Brought FEMA money into AlakanukDeclared for the county only

2023

Flooding

50 households applied for aid $443K aid approved

the county has had 1 natural disaster declared since 1953, most often floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Alakanuk is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Alakanuk’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Alakanuk. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.