Natural hazards · Yakutat

Yakutat, AK natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Yakutat 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 Yakutat?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yakutat to be higher than in 88% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and avalanches.

Earthquakes53%Avalanches32%Landslides7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Yakutat faces

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

Earthquakes

53% of expected damage

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

Avalanches

32% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 30 years in the area

Landslides

7% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLightningTsunamis

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 Yakutat flood?

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

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