Power outage history
Anchorage Municipality Alaska
4.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
6th most of 6 in Alaska 40% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Anchorage's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Anchorage, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 2025 | No storm report | 29,805 | 27% | 2.4 d | 41 h | 486k |
| Feb 21, 2024 | No storm report | 15,008 | 14% | 26 h | 15 h | 213k |
| Apr 24, 2018 | No storm report | 16,409 | 15% | 23 h | 17 h | 111k |
| Nov 8, 2023 | No storm report | 7,321 | 7% | 28 h | 17 h | 111k |
| Aug 31, 2023 | No storm report | 17,597 | 16% | 11 h | 7.0 h | 87k |
| Sep 24, 2021 | No storm report | 6,413 | 6% | 17 h | 18 h | 53k |
| May 13, 2023 | No storm report | 15,987 | 14% | 12 h | 8.5 h | 44k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 8,116 | 7% | 8.8 h | 6.0 h | 38k |
| Sep 1, 2023 | No storm report | 16,890 | 15% | 10 h | 2.2 h | 34k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 7,852 | 7% | 8.0 h | 8.0 h | 33k |
| Jul 4, 2024 | No storm report | 13,601 | 12% | 2.5 h | 6.0 h | 31k |
| Aug 31, 2024 | No storm report | 7,428 | 7% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 29k |
| Aug 9, 2024 | No storm report | 9,391 | 9% | 3.8 h | 30 min | 28k |
| Jul 16, 2022 | No storm report | 3,901 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 24k |
| Feb 21, 2022 | No storm report | 3,622 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 20k |
| Dec 9, 2019 | No storm report | 9,455 | 9% | 5.8 h | 3.8 h | 20k |
| Nov 20, 2023 | No storm report | 9,305 | 8% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 20k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 3,599 | 3% | 8.5 h | – | 18k |
| Aug 28, 2025 | Windstorm | 4,985 | 5% | 5.8 h | – | 17k |
| Oct 4, 2017 | No storm report | 6,171 | 6% | 3.8 h | 2.5 h | 17k |
| Oct 20, 2022 | No storm report | 9,874 | 9% | 4.0 h | 1.0 h | 17k |
| Aug 16, 2019 | No storm report | 16,610 | 15% | 1.0 h | 7.0 h | 17k |
| Oct 16, 2024 | No storm report | 3,107 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 15k |
| Apr 6, 2017 | No storm report | 2,297 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 15k |
| Sep 7, 2020 | No storm report | 3,084 | 3% | 6.5 h | – | 13k |
| Aug 29, 2023 | No storm report | 2,599 | 2% | 5.2 h | – | 13k |
| Sep 8, 2022 | No storm report | 5,559 | 5% | 3.8 h | 3.0 h | 13k |
| Oct 20, 2025 | No storm report | 13,252 | 12% | 2.0 h | 1.2 h | 13k |
| Jun 24, 2020 | No storm report | 2,609 | 2% | 5.5 h | – | 13k |
| Jul 19, 2022 | No storm report | 4,773 | 4% | 4.0 h | – | 13k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Anchorage from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 99%
- Windstorm 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Anchorage
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Alaska territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chugach Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 300 | 144 | 1.98 | 23.0 | 98k |
| Matanuska Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 1,134 | 390 | 4.06 | 24.5 | 65k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Matanuska-Susitna 11 h
- Kenai Peninsula 9.4 h
- Anchorage (this county) 4.0 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 110,430 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →