Before June, the weather service had issued special weather statements about high temperatures. Now they trigger heat advisories.

With temperatures rising to around 86 degrees in Fairbanks, residents in Alaska got their first-ever heat advisory.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Alaska just hit a climate milestone — its first-ever heat advisory on Jun 16, 2025. The disaster struck in early April just as the growing season was showing promise for a normal harvest.