Natural hazards · Chevak

Chevak, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Chevak comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Chevak?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

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

Cold waves98%Everything else2%

By hazard

What Chevak 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 Chevak flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Chevak 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.

Disasters that hit Chevak

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for the county shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Chevak itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into ChevakDeclared for the county only

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. Chevak 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 Chevak’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Chevak. 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.