Landslide Hazards Program

About the Program

The DGGS Alaska Landslide Hazards Program (ALHP) is dedicated to mapping and assessing landslides, understanding and quantifying landslide hazards, and improving geologic hazard communication and coordination with other agencies and communities. ALHP is devoted to improving and developing long-term relationships and collaborations with agencies and communities that are affected by landslides.

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• The Alaska Landslide Inventory is published and available for online viewing and as a downloadable database
• A deep-seated bedrock landslide susceptibility map is also available as an online map and downloadable pdf
• ALHP continues to support the Barry Arm Landslide research, monitoring program and field logistics
• Recent landslide hazard related publications

Coming Soon

• ALHP is working with the City of Cordova and City and Borough of Wrangell to develop landslide inventories and landslide susceptibility maps funded by the FEMA Cooperative Technical Partners Program
• Rescheduled for February 2026, the Alaska Geologic, Weather, and Climate Hazards Workshop funded by the FEMA Cooperative Technical Partners Program

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