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Floods in Alaska

Property owners in Alaska have filed 779 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $16.2 million paid.

  • 779flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $16.2Mpaid on those claims
  • 2012most claims in one year, 65
  • 49thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in Alaska per year 1978: 5 1979: 5 1980: 25 1981: 5 1982: 4 1983: 4 1984: 7 1985: 20 1986: 10 1987: 1 1988: 1 1989: 11 1990: 6 1991: 40 1992: 29 1993: 4 1994: 9 1995: 33 1996: 9 1997: 7 1998: 6 1999: 6 2000: 2 2001: 6 2002: 26 2003: 27 2004: 19 2005: 16 2006: 40 2007: 6 2008: 58 2009: 17 2010: 2 2011: 7 2012: 65 65 2013: 45 2014: 22 2015: 7 2016: 8 2017: 6 2018: 1 2019: 6 2020: 19 2021: 5 2022: 19 2023: 19 2024: 54 2025: 25 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

The deadliest floods since 1996

Notable events
Aug 18, 2015Flash Flood6$3.4 million
May 7, 2002Flash Flood3$1.0 million

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in Alaska
Fairbanks North Star Borough244
Juneau City and Borough102
Matanuska-Susitna Borough87
Kenai Peninsula Borough83
Anchorage Municipality81
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area72
Bethel Census Area45
Nome Census Area25
Ketchikan Gateway Borough11
Northwest Arctic Borough11
Sitka City and Borough6
North Slope Borough1

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency’s website(s).