Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK: flood risk, in FEMA's own numbers
On FEMA's National Risk Index, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area scores at the 9.4th percentile for flood hazard, rated "Very Low" — among the lowest flood hazard in the country. The hazard here is driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 100 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area's flood-insurance compliance gap
FEMA hasn't published a residential structure count for Southeast Fairbanks Census Area's mapped flood zone, so a reliable mandatory-compliance percentage can't be computed here — see the data quality guide for why this gap exists for roughly a quarter of US counties. Looking beyond the mandated zone, 0% of all residential structures in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area carry flood coverage voluntarily or otherwise — relevant because most NFIP claims nationally come from outside the mapped SFHA.
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area against the rest of the country
Among the 3144 US counties FEMA scores for flood hazard, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area ranks 2865 — 1 being the highest hazard nationally — and 2635 by population among all 3144 counties covered here, where 1 is the largest. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska covers 24,839.23 square miles and counts roughly 7,313 residents.
Your street may differ from Southeast Fairbanks Census Area's average
Across all of Southeast Fairbanks Census Area's 2,907 residential structures, 0 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
Where Southeast Fairbanks Census Area's figures come from
Every figure on this page traces to a named FEMA dataset, documented in the methodology guide. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area's compliance figure is one of the ones affected by FEMA's incomplete denominator data — the data quality guide explains what that means and how many counties it touches.