Natural hazards · Knik-Fairview

Knik-Fairview, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Knik-Fairview comes from earthquakes, 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 Knik-Fairview?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Knik-Fairview to be higher than in 94% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes90%Inland flooding6%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Knik-Fairview faces

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

Earthquakes

90% of expected damage

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

Inland flooding

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 3% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 100 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHeat wavesStrong windDroughtAvalanches

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 Knik-Fairview flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Knik-Fairview.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Knik-Fairview 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 Knik-Fairview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Knik-FairviewDeclared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough only

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

Around Knik-Fairview

Knik-Fairview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Big Lakemostly earthquakesVery high

Point MacKenziemostly earthquakesVery high

Wasillamostly earthquakesVery high

Knik-Fairviewmostly earthquakesVery high

Meadow Lakesmostly avalanchesVery high

Gatewaymostly earthquakesVery 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. Knik-Fairview covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Knik-Fairview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Knik-Fairview. 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 Knik-Fairview total about $14.7M 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.