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How many spam calls do people in Alaska report? They filed 209 FCC complaints in 12 months, 37th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Alaska filed 209 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 28.3 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 37th among the 50 states and DC. Only 18 of the 56 numbers people reported with a US area code carried one from Alaska, against 50% across the country.
- 209unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Alaska, October 2025 to September 2026
- 28.3complaints for every 100,000 residents, 37th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 907the area code people there named most, on 18 complaints (all of Alaska)
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025. All sources.
People in Alaska reported area code 907 most, and 1 of the 10 busiest area codes is in Alaska.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Alaska whose caller ID started with that code. 5 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 42 of the 74 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Alaska? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 907 | All of AlaskaIn Alaska | Yes | 18 |
| 2 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 4 |
| 3 | 216 | Cleveland, OHIn OH | No, OH | 3 |
| 4 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 5 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 6 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 7 | 435 | St. George, Logan and most of UtahIn UT | No, UT | 2 |
| 8 | 631 | Suffolk County, Long Island, NYIn NY | No, NY | 2 |
| 9 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 2 |
| 10 | 906 | Upper Peninsula, MIIn MI | No, MI | 2 |
Complaints from Alaska peaked at 39 in September 2026, against 5 in May 2026.
October 2025 and November 2025 are shaded and dotted because the FCC file holds only 323 and 16,267 complaints of any kind in those months, against about 29,400 in a usual one.
Complaints from Alaska by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Alaska per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Alaska
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 6 |
| December 2025 | 19 |
| January 2026 | 24 |
| February 2026 | 25 |
| March 2026 | 21 |
| April 2026 | 23 |
| May 2026 | 5 |
| June 2026 | 17 |
| July 2026 | 13 |
| August 2026 | 17 |
| September 2026 | 39 |
Live callers make up 34% of the complaints from Alaska, above the 26% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 209 complaints from Alaska split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Alaska
How the 209 complaints from Alaska split.
- Live caller34% · 71 complaints
- Prerecorded call27% · 56 complaints
- Text message12% · 25 complaints
- Kind not stated27% · 57 complaints
Across the country the split is prerecorded call 41%, live caller 26%, text message 15%, kind not stated 17%.
Fewer than half of the US numbers people in Alaska reported carry an Alaska area code, 18 of 56 (32%), against 50% across the country.
Of 74 complaints that gave a caller ID, 18 named an Alaska code, 38 a code from another state, 17 a toll-free code and 1 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Alaska reported came from
Where the 74 caller ID numbers from Alaska came from.
Alaska ranks 37th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Oregon and Iowa.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Alaska next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Alaska.
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209 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 28.3 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 37th among the 50 states and DC per person and 48th by total count.
907 (all of Alaska) was named on 18 complaints, 18 of the 74 of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 844 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 4 and 216 (Cleveland, Ohio) with 3.
Not mostly. 18 of the 56 of the complaints that named a US area code carried an Alaska code, against 50% across the country. After Alaska, the area codes named most belonged to Ohio (6), Florida (5) and Michigan (3). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
27% were about prerecorded calls, 34% about a live caller and 12% about text messages, and 27% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
September 2026, with 39 complaints. The quietest full month was May 2026, with 5. October 2025 and November 2025 are left out of that comparison because the FCC file is thin for them.
File a complaint with the FCC's Consumer Help Center at consumercomplaints.fcc.gov. Complaints filed there are the ones counted on this page, listed by the state of the person who filed. To report a scam or fraud call, use ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
A state with more people files more complaints just by being bigger. Dividing by the Census Bureau's July 1, 2025 estimate for Alaska (737,270 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Alaska ranks 37th per person and 48th by total count.
Every number on this page comes from two public sources.
The complaints come from the FCC.
Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", filed October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, read from opendata.fcc.gov on November 4, 2026.
The population comes from the Census Bureau.
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (NST-EST2025-POP), Vintage 2025 estimate for July 1, 2025, released January 2026, checked November 2026.
Data: FCC Consumer Complaints, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026, analysed by ExpressNumber. www.expressnumber.com/spam-calls-by-state/alaska
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