Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
How likely is a tornado in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK?
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area carries no recorded tornado touch anywhere in NOAA's 1950-2025 database - a real zero, the same result most of the Northeast and Pacific coast gets. Nationally, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area ranks at the 0th percentile for tornado frequency. Alaska has 30 counties in this dataset; Hoonah-Angoon Census Area ranks 23 of them by frequency.
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area's EF4-5 history
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 0 tracks split 0 weak and 0 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
For a Hoonah-Angoon Census Area homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Alaska-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
A direct hit is not required for Hoonah-Angoon Census Area to lose power - outbreak-wide outages across Alaska regularly reach homes and businesses well outside the actual tracks. A battery bank covers that gap without a generator's fuel and venting needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Hoonah-Angoon Census Area covers about 6,560 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Hoonah-Angoon Census Area has about 2,312 residents.