Natural hazards · Fishhook

Fishhook, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fishhook 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 Fishhook?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Avalanches73%Earthquakes23%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Fishhook 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 Fishhook flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Fishhook 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 Fishhook

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into FishhookDeclared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough only

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

Around Fishhook

Fishhook and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Tanainamostly earthquakesVery high

North Lakesmostly earthquakesVery high

Willowmostly avalanchesVery high

Fishhookmostly avalanchesVery high

Buffalo Soapstonemostly avalanchesVery high

Farm Loopmostly 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. Fishhook covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Fishhook total about $21.0M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.