Heat in Alaska
Every heat event the National Weather Service has filed in Alaska, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
The most significant on the map
The most significant heat episodes in Alaska.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 32
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- None recorded
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Heat in Alaska, June 24, 2000Record heat was recorded at Bethel Saturday. Temperatures there reached 80 degrees F.20 miles upriver along the Kuskokwim River, near the village of Akiachak, a 6 year old boy was playing in the river with friends and disappeared. The body was found at about 10 pm Saturday.
- Heat in Alaska, June 13, 1996Record low of 30 at Cold Bay (tied the entire month of June record low).
- Heat in Alaska, June 3, 1996High temperature record 54 at Saint Paul.
- Heat in Alaska, June 1, 1996High temperature record 76 set at the Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, June 3, 1996Record high of 59 reported at Cold Bay...beating old record of 58 (1990).
- Heat in Alaska, May 3, 1996High temperature record 58 at the Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, May 4, 1996High temperature record 62 at Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, May 5, 1996High temperature record 62 at the Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, May 11, 1996High temperature record 63 at Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, May 12, 1996High temperature record 74 at Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, May 13, 1996High temperature record 70 set at Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, May 14, 1996High temperature record 71 set at Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, May 18, 1996High temperature record 60 set at Valdez city site.
- Heat in Alaska, May 15, 1996Hi temperature record 56 at Cold Bay.
- Heat in Alaska, May 16, 1996Record high temperature 57 at Cold Bay.
- Heat in Alaska, May 4, 1996High temperature record 44 at Saint Paul.
- Heat in Alaska, May 5, 1996High temperature record 43 at Saint Paul.
- Heat in Alaska, May 6, 1996High temperature record 45 at Saint Paul.
- Heat in Alaska, May 10, 1996High temperature record 48 at Saint Paul.
- Heat in Alaska, May 15, 1996High temperature record 49 at Saint Paul.
- Heat in Alaska, May 16, 1996High temperature record 49 at Saint Paul.
- Heat in Alaska, May 19, 1996High temperature record 46 at Saint Paul.
- Heat in Alaska, May 4, 1996Record high temperature of 62 at Kodiak (airport).
- Heat in Alaska, May 6, 1996Record high temperature 56 at Kodiak (airport).
- Heat in Alaska, July 6, 1996High temperature record of 63 at Cold Bay.
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.