County annual report · FIPS 02090
2016 Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Alaska average 1.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Alaska counties and 2014th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with AK, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alaska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fairbanks North Star Borough, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 30, 2016 00:45 | December 30, 2016 14:45 | 14h | 5,766 | 7,140 |
| 2 | December 28, 2016 15:30 | December 28, 2016 20:30 | 5h | 4,207 | 2,717 |
| 3 | December 30, 2016 15:30 | December 31, 2016 00:15 | 8h 45m | 3,580 | 4,940 |
| 4 | December 18, 2016 04:45 | December 18, 2016 10:15 | 5h 30m | 3,170 | 1,846 |
| 5 | December 25, 2016 11:30 | December 25, 2016 14:15 | 2h 45m | 1,844 | 4,173 |
| 6 | December 26, 2016 05:45 | December 26, 2016 06:00 | 15m | 871 | 218 |
| 7 | December 4, 2016 10:30 | December 4, 2016 13:45 | 3h 15m | 141 | 452 |
| 8 | December 24, 2016 02:15 | December 24, 2016 05:30 | 3h 15m | 95 | 307 |
| 9 | December 22, 2016 05:45 | December 22, 2016 07:45 | 2h | 87 | 174 |
| 10 | December 28, 2016 09:45 | December 28, 2016 12:30 | 2h 45m | 86 | 237 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 reached 100+ customers, 5 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Fairbanks North Star Borough reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Valley Elec Assn Inc | 2016 | 5.5 hrs | 3.85 | 2.7 hrs | 2.08 |
| G & K, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Alaska's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 44,163 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Fairbanks North Star Borough has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/alaska/fairbanks-north-star-borough