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Alaska disaster history

County pages for Alaska, ordered by declaration count and backed by the FEMA datasets described in the brief.

Declarations
205
County declaration rows
Counties affected
28
State pages with county rollups
Tracked FEMA aid
$868.0M
PA + assistance signals
Top incident
Severe Storm
Oct 22, 2025
County directory

Counties with the most declarations

These are the county pages most likely to match long-tail “county + disaster history” searches.

Bethel Census Area20 declarationsKenai Peninsula Borough20 declarationsMatanuska-Susitna Borough19 declarationsYukon-Koyukuk Census Area19 declarationsFairbanks North Star Borough16 declarationsSoutheast Fairbanks Census Area12 declarationsNome Census Area11 declarationsDenali Borough10 declarationsNorth Slope Borough8 declarationsAnchorage Municipality7 declarationsKodiak Island Borough7 declarationsNorthwest Arctic Borough7 declarationsAleutians West Census Area6 declarationsDillingham Census Area6 declarationsBristol Bay Borough4 declarationsAleutians East Borough3 declarationsHaines Borough3 declarationsJuneau City and Borough3 declarationsKetchikan Gateway Borough3 declarationsLake and Peninsula Borough3 declarationsPetersburg Borough3 declarationsSkagway Municipality3 declarationsWrangell City and Borough3 declarationsKusilvak Census Area2 declarationsPrince of Wales-Hyder Census Area2 declarationsSitka City and Borough2 declarationsYakutat City and Borough2 declarationsHoonah-Angoon Census Area1 declarations
Recent declarations

Latest county-level events

FloodAug 2023Bethel Census Area

FLOODING

DR-4730-AK · May 12, 2023 to Jun 3, 2023
$0PA obligated
89Registrations
$303KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
FloodAug 2023Nome Census Area

FLOODING

DR-4730-AK · May 12, 2023 to Jun 3, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
About this state

FEMA disaster context for Alaska

Alaska has 205 county-level FEMA disaster declarations spread across 28 counties. The most common declaration type is severe storm. Across all counties, FEMA datasets track $868.0M in combined public and individual assistance obligations.

The counties with the heaviest disaster history are Bethel Census Area (20 declarations), Kenai Peninsula Borough (20), and Matanuska-Susitna Borough (19). Each county page breaks down the timeline, hazard mix, spending categories, and flood insurance signals for that specific area.

Declaration counts reflect how often FEMA formally declared a disaster or emergency affecting a county — not the total number of natural events. A single hurricane can generate declarations across dozens of counties and multiple states. The county pages linked above show the per-county detail behind these state-level totals.