NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Chugiak, AK
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Chugiak, Alaska since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 1 tornado has touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 1
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Chugiak
The only tornado within 25 miles was an EF0 on April 19, 2024; its path came within 21 miles. Chugiak is tied for the most tornadoes within 25 miles among the 5 Alaska cities on this site.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Chugiak
By decade
- 2020s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2024 | EF0 | 21 mi | 0.01 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 1 of 1, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Chugiak
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Chugiak since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Chugiak
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Eklutna Wtp, AK, 4 miles northeast of Chugiak at 640 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 71°F and low of 50°F; January is the coolest, at 21°F and 8°F. August is the wettest at 2.8 inches of precipitation on average and April the driest at 0.5 inches; the year adds up to 16.6 inches over 51 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 1 days a year. Lows fall below freezing on about 205 nights a year. That 16.6 inches is more than at 2 of the 5 Alaska stations used on this site (40%). Eagle River, 8 miles southwest, has its own station (Eagle Rvr Gakona Circle, AK): 17.7 inches a year, 1.1 more than here, and a July average high of 67°F against 71°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Anchorage, AK, 20 miles southwest, averaged 57°F in July and 30°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Anchorage tide gauge, 20 miles from Chugiak, has fallen 0.27 ± 0.16 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 2.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 13 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 21 | 8 | 1.0 | 3 | 30 |
| Feb | 29 | 12 | 0.9 | 3 | 30 |
| Mar | 36 | 15 | 0.7 | 2 | 31 |
| Apr | 50 | 28 | 0.5 | 2 | 34 |
| May | 62 | 36 | 0.8 | 3 | 45 |
| Jun | 69 | 44 | 1.5 | 4 | 54 |
| Jul | 71 | 50 | 1.8 | 6 | 57 |
| Aug | 68 | 47 | 2.8 | 8 | 57 |
| Sep | 58 | 39 | 2.3 | 7 | 52 |
| Oct | 44 | 27 | 1.6 | 5 | 44 |
| Nov | 28 | 15 | 1.1 | 4 | 34 |
| Dec | 24 | 10 | 1.6 | 4 | 31 |
| Year | 47 | 27 | 16.6 | 51 | 42 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Eklutna Wtp, AK (640 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Anchorage, AK, from NOAA Tides & Currents. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Anchorage Municipality, which includes Chugiak, has been named in 7 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1995, 5 of them major disasters (by incident: 2 biological emergencies, 2 earthquakes, 2 severe storms, 1 flood). The latest major disaster declaration was Covid-19 Pandemic, on April 9, 2020. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Anchorage Municipality a Relatively High rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Low for lightning; Very Low for tornadoes, hail, inland flooding and coastal flooding. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $366.8 million a year, the highest of 30 Alaska counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $201,000 (0%), is from lightning.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
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