Kenai Peninsula Borough
Mapped Floodplains
Are you in a mapped floodplain?
All rivers have floodplains, but permits are only required for activities in mapped floodplains. Please be aware that even if you do not live in a mapped floodplain, your home can still be damaged during a flood. And if you live along a beach or bluff, you may be in a floodplain even if you don't live on a river.
Listed below are Kenai Peninsula rivers with floodplains that are mapped through part of their length, with communities in mapped floodplains in parenthesis.
Anchor River
Bear Creek
Cooper Creek
Kasilof River (Kasilof)
Kenai River (Cooper Landing, Sterling, Soldotna, Kenai)
Killey River
Ninilchik River (Ninilchik)
Ptarmigan Creek
Resurrection Creek (Hope)
Resurrection River (Seward)
Russian River
Salmon Creek (Seward)
Trail River (Moose Pass)
Beaches and bluffs are mapped for the following areas:
Anchor Point
Deep Creek
Hope
The communities of Port Graham, Seldovia and Nanwalek are also mapped.
To learn more about living or building on floodplains on the Kenai Peninsula, contact the KPB Floodplain Administrator.