Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska had 18 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.25 times the US outage time per person and 1.27 times the Alaska rate. It ranks 4 of 6 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

6 of 8years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Julhardest months

December and July made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 26, 2022, reached 27,643 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 75.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Alaska counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

200K

400K

600K

800K

2016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	20,159	9	0
2017	144,840	76	2
2018	309,142	114	5
2019	134,959	88	1
2020	221,507	101	2
2021	544,754	72	2
2022	795,465	90	6
2023	152,668	102	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

10%

20%

30%

40%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jul 26, 2022	75.8	27,643	423,151
Dec 26, 2021	100.2	14,188	357,834
Oct 3, 2021	34.0	7,237	71,346
Aug 9, 2022	23.0	8,480	55,833
Feb 12, 2018	41.8	4,164	51,243

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.