Natural hazards · Alna

Alna, ME natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Alna comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Alna?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Alna to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding38%Hurricanes29%Ice storms9%Coastal flooding9%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Alna faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hurricanes

29% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Ice storms

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Coastal flooding

9% of expected damage

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

Lower here

TornadoesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Alna flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lincoln County.

Disasters that hit Alna

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Alna itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Alna.

Brought FEMA money into AlnaDeclared for Lincoln County only

2024

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2017

Severe Storm and Flooding

$15K to the Town of Alna for repairs

2011

Tropical Storm Irene

$839 to the Town of Alna for repairs

2007

Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding

1 household applied for aid $554 aid approved

Lincoln County has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and severe storms.

Around Alna

Alna and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Wiscassetmostly inland floodingModerate

Dresdenmostly inland floodingModerate

Whitefieldmostly inland floodingModerate

Jeffersonmostly inland floodingModerate

Alnamostly inland floodingModerate

Newcastlemostly inland floodingModerate

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