Natural hazards · Skagway

Skagway, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Skagway comes from cold waves, 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 Skagway?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Skagway to be higher than in 2% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and earthquakes.

Cold waves52%Earthquakes26%Landslides11%Winter weather5%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Skagway faces

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

Cold waves

52% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 9 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

26% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Landslides

11% of expected damage

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

Winter weather

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 27 times a year in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesIce stormsWildfireLightningAvalanchesTsunamis

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesHailHeat wavesStrong windDroughtVolcanic activity

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

Flood insurance claims

Does Skagway flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Skagway Municipality.

Disasters that hit Skagway

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SkagwayDeclared for Skagway Municipality only

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