Ketchikan Gateway Borough Severe Weather History
Ketchikan Gateway Borough has recorded 0 severe weather events since 1950. Reported property damage totals $0.
Storm risk snapshot
FEMA National Risk Index · December 2025Forward-looking risk from FEMA's National Risk Index — a complement to the historical record below. About the NRI.
By hazard type
Federal disaster declarations
3 federal disaster declarations affecting Ketchikan Gateway Borough (FEMA).
| Date | Incident | Type | Disaster # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2024 | Mud/Landslide | DR | 4846 |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Biological | DR | 4533 |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Biological | EM | 3446 |
Before 1950: historical newspaper accounts
The structured government storm record for Ketchikan Gateway Borough begins in 1950. Severe weather from earlier decades survives in first-hand newspaper reporting — eyewitness accounts, damage and casualties that predate the official database.
The Library of Congress's Chronicling America archive holds millions of digitized, public-domain newspaper pages from 1836–1949. Search it for storms in Ketchikan Gateway Borough:
Search 1836–1949 newspapers for Ketchikan Gateway Borough →Source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (public domain). Opens on loc.gov.