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    Climate change in Anchorage, Alaska

    Climate change is affecting locations like Anchorage in a variety of ways. In fall, these impacts include changes to fall foliage, heavier rain, and more frequent fire weather.

    Explore these pages to learn how people in Anchorage are at risk in a warming world.


    Anchorage's climate threats in include:

    Explore some ways climate change is affecting Anchorage in fall

    Impacts to fall color

    Conditions that trigger fall color are shifting with climate change.

    Heavier rainfall rates

    Heavier rain threatens people, ecosystems, and infrastructure nationwide.

    More fire weather

    Wildfire seasons are lengthening and intensifying.

    Worsening drought

    Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought

    Impacts to food prices

    Extreme events fueled by climate change can damage crops, reduce yields, and disrupt supply chains.

    More graphics about Anchorage and climate change

    Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Anchorage, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.

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