Alert archive / Alaska / Blizzard Warnings / 2026
Blizzard Warnings in Alaska, January 2026
14 blizzard warnings in January 2026. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard warnings reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in January 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 14
- Busiest day
- January 7, 20263 blizzard warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Alaska Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 1:00 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | Bethel Census Area | 56 hr |
| Jan 4, 9:16 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area | 26 hr |
| Jan 6, 4:30 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | Chugach Census Area | 35 hr |
| Jan 6, 12:56 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area, Northwest Arctic | 18 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:57 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | Aleutians West Census Area | 33 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:48 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | Chugach Census Area, Kodiak Island | 3 days |
| Jan 7, 1:36 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | Aleutians West Census Area | 46 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:36 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Denali, Nome Census Area, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 3 days |
| Jan 12, 7:55 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 15 hr |
| Jan 14, 11:03 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Denali, Fairbanks North Star, Nome Census Area, North Slope, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 3 days |
| Jan 16, 5:07 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | Bethel Census Area | 8 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:58 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 38 hr |
| Jan 26, 7:26 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area, North Slope, Northwest Arctic | 3 days |
| Jan 31, 1:35 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 67 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.