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Ranked from NOAA 1991-2020 Climate Normals

Hottest Summers in Alaska

Average daily high in the hottest month of the year, by county. Read it next to the cooling degree days in the same row: the two together are what the summer electricity bill is actually made of. Figures are NOAA 1991-2020 Climate Normals from the weather station nearest each county seat, so they describe a thirty-year average rather than any single year.

Where does yours land? Every county in America is somewhere on this scale, including the one you live in.

Alaska ranked

#County Summer highCooling degree daysMonthly to own
1 Fairbanks North Star Borough 71.6°F34$2,351
2 Southeast Fairbanks Census Area 71.5°F19$2,083
3 Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area 70.8°F27$863
4 Copper River Census Area 69.3°F8$1,840
5 Matanuska-Susitna Borough 68.7°F17$2,583
6 Anchorage Municipality 67.4°F5$3,061
7 Haines Borough 65.4°F11$2,501
8 Ketchikan Gateway Borough 64.7°F16$2,891
9 Bristol Bay Borough 64.6°F3$2,133
10 Dillingham Census Area 64.6°F3$1,529
11 Kodiak Island Borough 64.6°F3$2,991
12 Juneau City and Borough 64.5°F8$3,356
13 Skagway Municipality 64.5°F8$3,126
14 Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area 64.3°F6$1,750
15 Kusilvak Census Area 63.6°F7$719
16 Kenai Peninsula Borough 63.3°F1$2,315
17 Hoonah-Angoon Census Area 62.9°F0$2,123
18 Yakutat City and Borough 62.1°F0$1,543
19 Chugach Census Area 61.9°F1$2,618
20 Sitka City and Borough 61.8°F0$3,255
21 Petersburg Borough 61.7°F1$2,347
22 Wrangell City and Borough 61.7°F1$2,250
23 Northwest Arctic Borough 60.1°F5$1,298
24 North Slope Borough 57.9°F1$1,822
25 Nome Census Area 57.7°F3$1,788

Every figure is modelled on the county's own median home with 20% down at 7.03%. Property tax and electricity are county and state specific; homeowners insurance uses the NAIC average premium for that state, which ranges from 0.16% of home value in Hawaii to 1.16% in Oklahoma. Maintenance and water are national estimates. Full methodology.

Nationwide

Hottest Summers across all 3,133 US counties · Every county in Alaska

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