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2017 Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 173K customer-hours (Alaska average 1.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 7 Alaska counties and 1131st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AK, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alaska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fairbanks North Star Borough, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 13, 2017 14:15 | June 14, 2017 05:45 | 15h 30m | 20,466 | 21K |
| 2 | June 9, 2017 01:00 | June 9, 2017 12:15 | 11h 15m | 14,915 | 35K |
| 3 | November 29, 2017 20:45 | November 30, 2017 00:45 | 4h | 3,202 | 805 |
| 4 | July 5, 2017 15:30 | July 5, 2017 22:45 | 7h 15m | 3,055 | 6,885 |
| 5 | May 26, 2017 15:30 | May 26, 2017 18:15 | 2h 45m | 2,911 | 1,085 |
| 6 | August 22, 2017 20:30 | August 23, 2017 00:45 | 4h 15m | 2,763 | 3,480 |
| 7 | November 22, 2017 11:00 | November 22, 2017 17:15 | 6h 15m | 2,521 | 1,378 |
| 8 | July 23, 2017 21:30 | July 25, 2017 08:45 | 1d 11h | 2,472 | 22K |
| 9 | June 20, 2017 02:00 | June 20, 2017 07:45 | 5h 45m | 2,144 | 1,357 |
| 10 | June 19, 2017 20:45 | June 20, 2017 01:15 | 4h 30m | 1,873 | 2,023 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 97 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 3.8 hrs | 3.12 | 3.1 hrs | 2.94 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/alaska/fairbanks-north-star-borough