What's still missing in Alaska is measured in absences: 3,300 occupied homes with no running water or flush toilet, 47 communities with no piped water at all, some 200 diesel microgrids, maternity care more than 90 minutes away by a clock that assumes roads exist, and a $1.017 billion broadband programme that still has to hand a third of the state to satellites.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Alaska's needs profile is unlike any Lower 48 state's: the worst deficits are not congestion or housing ratios but absence — 3,300+ occupied rural homes without running water or a flush toilet, some 200 isolated diesel microgrids, a third of the state's broadband build assigned to satellites, and maternity care whose median access is published only as 'more than 90 minutes' in a state where the alternative to a road is an aircraft. National instruments are used wherever they genuinely cover Alaska (TTI's Anchorage row, NLIHC, CHQPR, Feeding America, ASCE, FHWA's bridge inventory, NTIA's BEAD figures), printing disagreements rather than blending them: dam counts run 27, 30 and 40 across ASDSO and ASCE sources, and water-need dollars run from ASCE's $1.4B fact-sheet figure to the $4.5B twenty-year figure in the full report card's coverage.
Where a national instrument genuinely does not publish an Alaska value, this page says so instead of substituting a neighbour's: the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory interconnection-queue series has no usable Alaska coverage (Alaska's grids are isolated and mostly unqueued), so the power category is built from the Alaska Energy Authority, DOE and Railbelt utility reporting instead. TTI measures only Anchorage, so traffic's statewide story is honestly a one-metro story. Tribal health and village infrastructure — delivered largely by ANTHC, the regional tribal health organizations, the State Village Safe Water programme and USDA village grants — runs through the hospitals and water categories here; the corresponding construction projects are documented with full figures on the What's Being Built page's coverage note, where the owner rule as written places them.