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The City is in the process of updating our Hazard Mitigation Plan.  The purpose of the plan is to inform communities of the vulnerabilities to natural hazards, encourage better design, and enable the City to apply for grant funding to implement projects to minimize and mitigate future impacts.  Identified natural hazards include earthquake, severe weather, fire, flooding, volcanic ash, and erosion.

Two recent examples of events that impacted Wasilla were the windstorm events in early 2022 and 2023 and the earthquake in 2018.  These events impacted residents, business owners, and the City.  The 2022 windstorm affected the City water infrastructure and water towers, and the 2023 windstorm damaged several private airplanes at the City Airport.

It’s important that we get your input to help us identify the people and facilities at risk from natural hazards and recommend and prioritize projects to mitigate damage to them.  This includes personal property, businesses, and vulnerable populations such as the senior population, medically fragile, etc.).  You can provide input via this link:  Wasilla HMP Survey.

For additional information, please call Planning at 907-373-9020 or send an email to planning@cityofwasilla.gov.

We invite you to contact us:

City of Wasilla

Planning Department

290 E. Herning Avenue

Wasilla, AK 99654

Phone: 907-373-9020

Fax: 907-373-9021

Email: planning@cityofwasilla.gov

Office Hours:

Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

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