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AK · #31 of 51 by structures

Cell towers in Alaska

Alaska has 1,475 constructed antenna structures in the FCC registry — 1% of the national total and number 31 of 51. The most common kind is the lattice tower (30%), the median overall height is 95 feet, and 8% stand taller than 200 feet. The largest owner is The Alaska Wireless Network, LLC, with 197 structures (13%).

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  1. 1Constructed structures 1,475
  2. 2Median height 95 ft
  3. 3Largest owner The Alaska Wireless Network, LLC
  4. 4Counties with a county page 26
Anchorage Municipality325Fairbanks North Star Borough153Kenai Peninsula Borough150Matanuska-Susitna Borough128Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area70North Slope Borough68Valdez-Cordova Census Area (former)56Juneau City and Borough53Nome Census Area52Bethel Census Area50
Constructed FCC-registered structures in Alaska's ten counties with the most, bars to scale. Source: FCC ASR, October 2026.

Who owns Alaska's towers

The FCC registry names the owner of each structure. In Alaska the eight largest owner groups hold 758 of the 1,475 structures. Where a tower stands on leased land, that owner — or whoever bought the tower from it — is usually the landowner's tenant and the party a lease buyout offer is ultimately about.

The Alaska Wireless Network,197Vertical Bridge145The Alaska Wireless Network107Alascom Inc.103American Tower66State of Alaska50Alaska Communications Intern48Octagon Towers42
Constructed structures in Alaska by owner group, bars to scale. Families group registrant names carrying the brand; private owners' names are withheld. Source: FCC ASR.

Types and age

More of Alaska's registered structures went up in the 2000s than in any other decade (39%). A tower's age matters to a landowner because a ground lease runs for a set term plus renewals: the older the tower, the more of that term has been used, and the fewer years of rent are left to value when an offer arrives.

Lattice tower449Tower282On a building251Monopole198Pole128Guyed tower78Other or unspecified64Mast22Water tank3
Constructed structures in Alaska by type, bars to scale. Source: FCC ASR structure types.
21950s61960s551970s951980s1631990s5732000s4312010s1502020s
Structures in Alaska by decade built (1950s on), columns to scale. Source: FCC ASR construction dates.

Every county

Aleutians East Borough 14Aleutians West Census Area 26Anchorage Municipality 325Bethel Census Area 50Bristol Bay Borough 14Denali Borough 20Dillingham Census Area 24Fairbanks North Star Borough 153Haines Borough 10Hoonah-Angoon Census Area 13Juneau City and Borough 53Kenai Peninsula Borough 150Ketchikan Gateway Borough 25Kodiak Island Borough 38Kusilvak Census Area 16Lake and Peninsula Borough 25Matanuska-Susitna Borough 128Nome Census Area 52North Slope Borough 68Northwest Arctic Borough 37Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area 22Sitka City and Borough 11Skagway Municipality 7Southeast Fairbanks Census Area 44Valdez-Cordova Census Area (former) 56Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area (former) 21Yakutat City and Borough 3Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area 70

Counties with fewer than 10 structures have no page of their own; their towers are in the lookup.

Source: FCC Antenna Structure Registration, weekly public access file (r_tower.zip, created 2026-10-18); county names from the U.S. Census Bureau 2024 gazetteer. Checked 2026-10-23. Methodology.