Power outages in Alaska
Live outage status by area · updated ~every 15 minutes
318
customers reported out statewide · 2 areas reporting · 2 with 50+ customers out
Updated 7:41 PM AKDT.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
Matanuska-Susitna — 216 reported out · eased overall (small recent uptick) — already running longer than the typical past outage here of 2,000–10,000 customers in the same kind of weather (~2.4 hr start to finish), based on 4 past outages
Anchorage — 102 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in the utilities' own live data we track — Alaska is not included in the federal county-by-county tally; “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Alaska areas (30)
- Aleutians East
- Aleutians West
- Anchorage
- Bethel
- Bristol Bay
- Chugach
- Copper River
- Denali
- Dillingham
- Fairbanks North Star
- Haines
- Hoonah-Angoon
- Juneau
- Kenai Peninsula
- Ketchikan Gateway
- Kodiak Island
- Kusilvak
- Lake and Peninsula
- Matanuska-Susitna
- Nome
- North Slope
- Northwest Arctic
- Petersburg
- Prince of Wales-Hyder
- Sitka
- Skagway
- Southeast Fairbanks
- Wrangell
- Yakutat
- Yukon-Koyukuk
Utility coverage in Alaska
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Chugach Electric (Anchorage, AK) · Matanuska Electric Association (AK) · Golden Valley Electric (Fairbanks, AK) · Kodiak Electric Association (AK)
Known utilities we don't yet get live data from
Chugach Electric Association (Anchorage) — we know they serve this state; their areas are still covered by the county-level numbers above.
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Alaska.
Historical outage patterns in Alaska
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 2,774 area-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Alaska between 2014 and 2025 for the 8 areas the federal record covers — 53 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 3.5 hr, and area-level outages here have been most common in summer (32% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2022.
Largest single-area outage on record: ~66,516 customers out in Anchorage in May 2023, restored after about 4.5 hr.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-area records shown on each area page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-area typical times, weighted by how many records each area has. A area appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Alaska?
Electric utilities we track in Alaska include Chugach Electric, Matanuska Electric Association, Golden Valley Electric and Kodiak Electric Association. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.