Natural hazards · Cordova

Cordova, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Cordova comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2006.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Cordova?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Cordova to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches77%Earthquakes15%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Cordova faces

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

Avalanches

77% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Lower here

Inland floodingCoastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningTsunamis

Not a risk here

HurricanesHeat wavesStrong windDroughtVolcanic activity

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

Flood insurance claims

Does Cordova flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Cordova, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2006

$65Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20062026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: .

What’s been done with FEMA grants

11flood-prone homes bought out and moved

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