Natural hazards · Tanaina

Tanaina, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tanaina comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2014.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Tanaina?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Tanaina to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes.

Earthquakes89%Inland flooding7%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Tanaina faces

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

Earthquakes

89% 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 4% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHeat wavesStrong windDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

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 Tanaina flood?

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

1paid claims since 2014

$5Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20142026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Tanaina 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 Tanaina

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TanainaDeclared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough only

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

Around Tanaina

Tanaina and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wasillamostly earthquakesVery high

Tanainamostly earthquakesVery high

Meadow Lakesmostly avalanchesVery high

North Lakesmostly earthquakesVery high

Willowmostly avalanchesVery high

Fishhookmostly 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. Tanaina covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Tanaina’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Tanaina. 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 Tanaina total about $3.9M 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.