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Natural hazards · Loring

Loring, AK natural hazards

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

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

How exposed is Loring?

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Very low
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Loring to be higher than in 1% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches.

Avalanches77%Tsunamis8%Landslides7%Inland flooding7%Everything else1%
By hazard

What Loring faces

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

Avalanches

77% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Tsunamis

8% of expected damage
Well above average · among the top 1% 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

Coastal floodingTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

HurricanesHailCold wavesHeat 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 Loring flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Loring isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Ketchikan Gateway Borough.
Disasters that hit Loring

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LoringDeclared for Ketchikan Gateway Borough only
Ketchikan Gateway 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. Loring 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 Loring’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Loring. 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.

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