Natural hazards · Glacier View

Glacier View, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glacier View 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 Glacier View?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glacier View to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches87%Earthquakes10%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Glacier View faces

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

Avalanches

87% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHeat wavesStrong windDroughtTsunamis

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

Flood insurance claims

Does Glacier View flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Glacier View 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 Glacier View

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Glacier ViewDeclared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough only

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

Around Glacier View

Glacier View and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Glacier Viewmostly avalanchesVery high

Chickaloonmostly avalanchesVery high

Eureka Roadhousemostly 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. Glacier View 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 Glacier View’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Glacier View. 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.