Natural hazards · Haines

Haines, AK natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Haines?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Haines to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and earthquakes.

Avalanches56%Earthquakes20%Landslides7%Inland flooding7%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Haines faces

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

Avalanches

56% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Earthquakes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Landslides

7% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

7% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 100 years in the area

Lower here

TornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLightningTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHailHeat wavesStrong windDrought

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Haines flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Haines Borough.

Disasters that hit Haines

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into HainesDeclared for Haines Borough only

Haines Borough has had 1 natural disaster declared since 1953, most often landslides.

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