The State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) produced airborne lidar-derived elevation data for Sitka, Alaska. Airborne and ground surveys occurred between the 27th and 30th of April, 2018. These data were produced to assess bare earth slope conditions as part of an overarching, multi-hazard risk analysis for the study area, coordinated through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) program. The project was initiated in response to a tragic debris flow incident that took three Alaskans' lives in 2015. This data collection is released as a Raw Data File with an open end-user license. All files can be downloaded free of charge from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys website (http://doi.org/10.14509/30531). The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) downloaded this data set from this AK DGGS site: https://elevation.alaska.gov/ These files were processed to make the data available for custom and bulk download from the NOAA Digital Coast Data Access Viewer (DAV) . The total number of files downloaded and processed was 263. During processing, OCM noted that there are points that fall on water bodies and buildings that are classified as ground. In addition to these lidar point data, the bare earth Digital Elevation Models (DEM) created from the lidar point data are also available. These data are available for custom download at the link provided in the URL section of this metadata record. This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.