Property Atlas

County hazard profile

Kenai Peninsula, AK

Alaska · pop. 58,731 · FIPS 02122

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Avalanche
dominant hazard
$121M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

lower than most counties (37th percentile)

national median $15M/yr Kenai Peninsula $121M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Moderate 93.03/100
national median ~50 among the highest nationally
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 47.11/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (47th percentile)
Community resilienceVery Low 6.49/100
national median ~50 among the lowest nationally

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Kenai Peninsula

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 82 flood-insurance claims totaling $714K in Kenai Peninsula since 1979. The costliest year was 2002 ($175K paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1979: $4,746 paid 1995: $139,514 paid 1996: $0 paid 1999: $21,598 paid 2000: $7,750 paid 2002: $175,135 paid 2006: $148,310 paid 2007: $5,536 paid 2008: $3,597 paid 2009: $0 paid 2011: $1,445 paid 2012: $98,514 paid 2013: $0 paid 2017: $28,031 paid 2022: $10,546 paid 2023: $68,287 paid 2024: $515 paid 2002 · $175K 1979 2024
$714K
total paid
$8,702
average claim
$79K
largest single claim
56%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Kenai Peninsula, AK and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Kenai Peninsula is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.