Alaska historic extreme events library

Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy and Alaska Fellows have compiled a library of historical weather and climate events that significantly impacted Alaskans. They combed newspapers, disaster declarations, agency briefings and other sources to create a suite of over a dozen outreach products that clearly communicate each meteorological event and its associated impacts. 

The library covers a variety of events including the 2022 typhoon Merbok that devastated western Alaska, the 1996 Miller’s Reach Fire that burned over 300 structures near Houston, and 1980s flooding that caused widespread infrastructure damage in southcentral.