FEMA’s digital flood map shows no high- or moderate-risk zones in Yakutat City and Borough. That can mean the area was never studied in detail or has no digital map, not that it can’t flood; the county floodplain administrator can say which.
Share of the whole county outline, rivers and lakes included; parts FEMA hasn’t mapped count as zero.
Shaded areas are FEMA’s mapped flood hazard zones in and around Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska. Zoomed out they are simplified; at street level the map switches to FEMA’s exact layer. Tap anywhere to check that spot, or search an address above.
The zones you’ll see on the map
Every colour on the map above is a place on this drawing: where the ground sits relative to the flood FEMA plans for.
A / AE Inside the 1%-a-year floodplain: about a 26% chance of flooding over a 30-year mortgage. AE has a mapped base flood elevation; plain A does not.
Floodway The channel and the land beside it that has to be kept clear enough to carry the flood. Building here is tightly limited.
X shaded The 0.2% (500-year) floodplain, plus some levee-protected and very shallow flood areas.
X Outside both lines. No federal requirement to insure, which is not the same as no risk.
If a building in Yakutat City and Borough is in a high-risk zone (A or V) and its mortgage comes from a federally regulated or insured lender, or is federally backed, flood insurance is required.
Outside those zones it is optional, and often worth having: from 2014 to 2024 nearly one-third of NFIP claims came from outside the high-risk Special Flood Hazard Area. Since Risk Rating 2.0, NFIP premiums are set for each building, so the only reliable price is a quote: FloodSmart.gov or a local agent.