Natural hazards · Meadow Lakes

Meadow Lakes, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Meadow Lakes comes from avalanches, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 5 claims here since 2006.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Meadow Lakes?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Meadow Lakes to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and earthquakes.

Avalanches50%Earthquakes43%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Meadow Lakes faces

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

Avalanches

50% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Earthquakes

43% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Inland floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHeat wavesStrong windDroughtTsunamis

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

Flood insurance claims

Does Meadow Lakes flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Meadow Lakes, from FEMA’s records.

5paid claims since 2006

$53Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20062026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Meadow Lakes 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 Meadow Lakes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Meadow LakesDeclared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough only

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

Around Meadow Lakes

Meadow Lakes and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Houstonmostly earthquakesVery high

Big Lakemostly earthquakesVery high

Wasillamostly earthquakesVery high

Knik-Fairviewmostly earthquakesVery high

Tanainamostly earthquakesVery high

Meadow Lakesmostly avalanchesVery high

Willowmostly 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. Meadow Lakes covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Meadow Lakes’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Meadow Lakes. 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 Meadow Lakes total about $30.8M 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.