Contact Information
Address:
222 W 7th Ave
#23
Anchorage, AK 99513-7575
United StatesPhone:
907-271-5088
NWS Alaska Region Headquarters
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Alaska Region provides weather, hydrologic, climate forecasts and volcanic ash and tsunami warnings for the state of Alaska and its surrounding waters.
Alaska is the largest state in the country. At one-fifth the size of the combined Lower 48 states, the land mass is 570,374 square miles, or about 365 million acres. Alaska's nearly 47,000 miles of coastline is about two-thirds of the total U.S. coastline. Alaska, also known as the "Great State" and the "Last Frontier," holds many records and unique landmarks such as North America's biggest earthquake - the 9.2 magnitude Good Friday Earthquake of 1964, the nation's greatest concentration of glaciers, North America's tallest mountain - Denali at 20,320 feet, and the nation's farthest-north city - Barrow. Since the Aleutian Island chain passes through the international date line, Alaska also has both the easternmost and westernmost land in the U.S!