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2018 Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 345K customer-hours (Alaska average 6.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 7 Alaska counties and 706th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AK, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alaska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fairbanks North Star Borough, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 25, 2018 05:30 | July 25, 2018 09:00 | 3h 30m | 17,526 | 5,560 |
| 2 | February 11, 2018 22:15 | February 16, 2018 06:45 | 4d 8h | 15,777 | 123K |
| 3 | July 16, 2018 20:30 | July 16, 2018 22:45 | 2h 15m | 15,648 | 11K |
| 4 | December 22, 2018 02:45 | December 22, 2018 03:45 | 1h | 7,519 | 6,826 |
| 5 | August 15, 2018 22:45 | August 16, 2018 03:00 | 4h 15m | 7,173 | 1,802 |
| 6 | January 22, 2018 17:15 | January 22, 2018 19:30 | 2h 15m | 6,290 | 6,715 |
| 7 | May 21, 2018 05:15 | May 21, 2018 07:15 | 2h | 5,155 | 2,353 |
| 8 | February 18, 2018 16:30 | February 18, 2018 20:45 | 4h 15m | 5,043 | 15K |
| 9 | May 11, 2018 15:45 | May 13, 2018 14:30 | 1d 22h | 4,307 | 16K |
| 10 | January 24, 2018 05:45 | January 24, 2018 08:45 | 3h | 4,273 | 6,394 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 118 reached 100+ customers, 44 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 8.8 hrs | 6.61 | 5.5 hrs | 5.26 |
| 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 67% of Alaska's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/alaska/fairbanks-north-star-borough