Counties We Cover in Alaska

Start from the county. In Alaska, 2 counties fall inside the metros PestReach USA covers — the Anchorage areas among them — adding up to about 26,414 square miles. Pest pressure is read at this level because it is the level providers work at: routes, licensing and local rules all resolve to county and metro long before they resolve to state.

The counties around a metro's core are often where the pressure is most interesting — newer subdivisions built into former farmland and woodland meet established pest populations at the edge, while the urban core deals with the pests of density. Each county page reads its own position in that pattern.

By land, the covered counties run from Matanuska-Susitna Borough (24,707 sq mi), Anchorage Municipality (1,707 sq mi) down to Anchorage Municipality at about 1,707 square miles. The metros anchoring coverage are Anchorage (metro population 405,821; 2 covered counties in Alaska). Hold those two scales together — the county's land and the metro's weight — and the county pages below read plainly: pressure follows the metro, exposure follows the land, and providers plan for both.

Weather sets the calendar, and in Anchorage — the state's anchor metro — it reads: 13 inches of precipitation annually, average temperatures around 37°F, 0 days reaching 90°F and 187 freezing days. The counties below share that regime; what changes county to county is housing, land and distance from the core.