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2020 Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 256K customer-hours (Alaska average 4.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 7 Alaska counties and 1271st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AK, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alaska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fairbanks North Star Borough, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 12, 2020 22:15 | August 13, 2020 12:45 | 14h 30m | 12,274 | 15K |
| 2 | February 6, 2020 14:00 | February 7, 2020 04:30 | 14h 30m | 5,996 | 8,180 |
| 3 | June 9, 2020 14:30 | June 9, 2020 18:45 | 4h 15m | 5,198 | 3,202 |
| 4 | February 4, 2020 19:00 | February 4, 2020 21:45 | 2h 45m | 4,665 | 2,668 |
| 5 | July 10, 2020 02:30 | July 10, 2020 12:15 | 9h 45m | 4,530 | 2,475 |
| 6 | August 2, 2020 01:00 | August 3, 2020 08:15 | 1d 7h | 4,448 | 21K |
| 7 | February 11, 2020 12:45 | February 11, 2020 19:45 | 7h | 4,359 | 12K |
| 8 | February 8, 2020 20:30 | February 9, 2020 11:00 | 14h 30m | 4,358 | 2,956 |
| 9 | January 18, 2020 15:00 | January 19, 2020 00:15 | 9h 15m | 4,348 | 19K |
| 10 | June 21, 2020 19:00 | June 22, 2020 05:15 | 10h 15m | 4,269 | 4,987 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 111 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 6.4 hrs | 3.55 | 5.6 hrs | 3.41 |
| 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 68% of Alaska's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/alaska/fairbanks-north-star-borough