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2023 Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 191K customer-hours (Alaska average 8.4 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 7 Alaska counties and 1608th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AK, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alaska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fairbanks North Star Borough, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 9, 2023 23:00 | October 10, 2023 01:45 | 2h 45m | 21,908 | 23K |
| 2 | January 26, 2023 04:00 | January 26, 2023 06:00 | 2h | 8,944 | 3,089 |
| 3 | November 24, 2023 13:45 | November 24, 2023 16:30 | 2h 45m | 8,662 | 8,565 |
| 4 | August 26, 2023 20:15 | August 26, 2023 21:45 | 1h 30m | 5,087 | 1,848 |
| 5 | July 25, 2023 01:45 | July 25, 2023 12:15 | 10h 30m | 4,542 | 6,573 |
| 6 | June 14, 2023 17:00 | June 14, 2023 21:15 | 4h 15m | 4,518 | 8,140 |
| 7 | May 17, 2023 04:45 | May 17, 2023 10:00 | 5h 15m | 3,915 | 15K |
| 8 | January 23, 2023 19:00 | January 23, 2023 22:00 | 3h | 3,907 | 8,732 |
| 9 | December 19, 2023 19:30 | December 19, 2023 19:45 | 15m | 3,744 | 936 |
| 10 | January 24, 2023 14:30 | January 24, 2023 15:45 | 1h 15m | 3,702 | 3,886 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 129 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | 3.34 | - | - |
| 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 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/alaska/fairbanks-north-star-borough