City aurora forecast
Aurora Forecast for Fairbanks, Alaska
No visible aurora signal for Fairbanks right now
High-latitude inland site with strong auroral frequency and dark-sky advantages outside town.
Current Kp: --. Fairbanks typically needs about Kp 2 before reliable visual reports start showing up.
Fairbanks sits at 64.8° latitude with an estimated Bortle 3 urban-light baseline. Drive away from core lighting before judging a marginal Kp event.
Current cloud cover: 38%. It is currently daytime locally, so visual aurora odds remain theoretical until darkness returns.
Quiet conditions keep HF polar paths closer to normal.
Keep polar routes on watch and re-check if Bz turns south.
Open full aurora dashboardThe auroral oval usually sits well north of mid-latitudes during quiet conditions. A stronger Kp expands that oval southward. For Fairbanks, the practical storm threshold is about Kp 2, but a long southward Bz interval matters almost as much as the raw Kp number.
If you are below about 50° latitude, treat Kp 5 as the first serious threshold. Above 60° latitude, even Kp 2-3 can be enough under dark skies.