Natural hazards · Fairbanks

Fairbanks, MI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fairbanks comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1986.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fairbanks?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairbanks to be higher than in 9% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding47%Cold waves34%Hail7%Strong wind6%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Fairbanks faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 23% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

34% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hail

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

HurricanesAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Fairbanks flood?

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

1paid claims since 1986

$3Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19862026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Delta County.

Disasters that hit Fairbanks

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Delta County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Fairbanks itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into FairbanksDeclared for Delta County only

Delta County has had 4 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and freezes.

Around Fairbanks

Fairbanks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Nahmamostly inland floodingLow

Fairbanksmostly inland floodingVery low

Gardenmostly inland floodingVery low

Washingtonmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Fairbanks covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fairbanks’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Fairbanks. 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 Fairbanks total about $650K 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.