How do you keep a house warm in Alaska?

Answer 1

There are several popular and common ways to heat homes in Alaska. Some heat with electric heat, gas, oil, propane and firewood. Many of the homes and cabins outside of the cities use either wood or oil. Wood is the most common in those areas because it's easily obtained and free, but some use oil heaters called "monitors" because they allow you to keep your home or cabin warm while you're gone without worrying about the fire in your wood stove going out. Geothermal is also a way to heat homes. It uses the heat from the earths core to heat your home. Alaska has a lot of geothermal activity to include hot springs and many volcanoes in the south. There are even some homes and businesses that are heated directly from the water coming out of the ground at hot springs, this is not common but there are some.