Natural hazards · Farm Loop

Farm Loop, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Farm Loop comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Farm Loop?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Farm Loop to be higher than in 85% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and earthquakes.

Avalanches73%Earthquakes23%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Farm Loop faces

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

Avalanches

73% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesStrong windDroughtTsunamisVolcanic activity

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

Flood insurance claims

Does Farm Loop flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

Disasters that hit Farm Loop

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Farm Loop itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Farm LoopDeclared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough only

Matanuska-Susitna Borough has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

Around Farm Loop

Farm Loop and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

North Lakesmostly earthquakesVery high

Palmermostly earthquakesVery high

Gatewaymostly earthquakesVery high

Farm Loopmostly avalanchesVery high

Buffalo Soapstonemostly avalanchesVery high

Fishhookmostly avalanchesVery high

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. Farm Loop 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 Farm Loop’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Farm Loop. 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.