The direct answer, since most pages avoid it: Amazon has no fulfillment center in Alaska. The
state has a sortation center in Anchorage, a site in Fairbanks, and a partner location. Nothing in
Alaska stores inventory the way a mainland fulfillment center does.
That single fact explains nearly everything Alaskans notice about ordering from Amazon, and I’d rather
say it in the first line than bury it under a list of addresses.
The short version in numbers: 3 Alaska facilities on record, 1 of
them carrying a published facility code, spread across 3
distinct facility types. The full breakdown is below.
Came here from a tracking page with a code you did not recognize? The table below carries every Alaska facility on our record, with its code, address, and type. Use your browser’s find function. A code that is missing usually belongs to a neighboring state, which in my experience worries people far more than it should.
Every Amazon facility in Alaska
3 facilities, of which 1 have a published code: 1 delivery station, 1 sortation center, 1 third-party partner site.
| Code | Address | ZIP | Type | County |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (not listed) | 3121 Airport Way, Fairbanks, AK | 99709 | Delivery Station | Fairbanks North Star |
| WGE2 | 5900 Old Seward Hwy, Anchorage, AK | 99518 | Sortation Center | Anchorage |
| (not listed) | 4751 Old Seward Hwy, Anchorage, AK | 99503 | Third-party partner site | Anchorage |
Addresses are compiled from public listings. Amazon opens, closes, and repurposes buildings
continually, and no facility on this list accepts visitors or takes calls about individual
parcels, which is why we do not publish site phone numbers.
The Alaska code people look up most
One code accounts for the overwhelming majority of Alaska searches.
- WGE2 is a sortation center at 5900 Old Seward Hwy in Anchorage. As a sortation center it handles
parcels that are already packed, grouping them for onward delivery, so a scan there means your order
is in Alaska and moving rather than still waiting to be picked.
The other Alaska entries in our listing are a Fairbanks site and a third-party partner location.
There is no fulfillment center code for Alaska because there is no fulfillment center.
Everything arrives from roughly 1,400 miles away
Every facility on record sits in Anchorage or Fairbanks. There is nothing in Juneau, on the Kenai
Peninsula, in the Southeast panhandle, or anywhere in rural Alaska.
Anchorage is the entry point. Goods arrive from the Seattle area, roughly 1,400 miles away, either
by sea freight or by air, and then move through the sortation center and onward to their destination,
which for a great many Alaskans involves a further leg by road, barge, or small aircraft before
anything reaches a door. Fairbanks sits about 360 miles north by road. It is served onward from
Anchorage.
Anchorage’s airport is one of the busiest cargo airports in the world, which surprises people. It
sits within roughly nine and a half hours’ flying time of most of the industrialized northern
hemisphere, so a great deal of freight refuels there that has no connection to Alaska. Amazon’s own
presence is a small part of a much larger operation.
The practical effects are consistent. Delivery windows are longer than mainland Prime promises,
including for Prime members. Many items cannot be sent at all, particularly hazardous materials,
aerosols, certain batteries, and anything that cannot fly. Oversized goods often carry surcharges.
Communities off the road system wait longest of all, since a final leg by small aircraft or barge is
involved.
None of that is a service failure. In our experience it is geography, and Alaskans know it better than
any article does.
What it means when your parcel is at one of these
Knowing what kind of building your parcel is sitting in changes how much patience the situation
deserves, and in our experience most people worry at exactly the wrong moment.
Inventory lives at a fulfillment center, so a parcel scanned there has generally not been picked
and packed yet. A sortation center deals only with packed parcels, sorting them toward the right
region. A delivery station is the final stop before a van, and I’d expect delivery within a day
or so of seeing one. Our guide to the different types of Amazon warehouse
covers what happens inside each, and sortation center versus fulfillment center
covers the pair people confuse most.
On the codes themselves, a caution. Amazon does not publish how it names facilities, which
means any lookup table circulating online is somebody’s inference. The leading D for a delivery
station is the one convention that mostly survives scrutiny. For everything else, in our experience
the type column above is the safer guide than anything the letters appear to suggest.
If the parcel has stopped moving entirely, our guide to what a carrier delay means
covers how long to wait before it is worth doing anything, and our guide to
a disappeared order covers the case where
the order itself has vanished from your account rather than the parcel from the network.
If your code is not on this list
Plenty of people arrive here, search for their code, and find nothing. I’d not treat that as a
dead end, because there are only a few explanations and none of them are alarming.
The building is over a state line. Much the commonest reason. Parcel networks pay no attention to
borders, and neighboring states routinely handle each other’s volume. In our experience this accounts
for the large majority of missing codes.
The facility is newer than this listing. Amazon opens buildings continually and no compiled list
keeps pace. If the code looks unfamiliar and recent, that is likely why.
The code belongs to a partner rather than to Amazon. Contracted delivery firms and third-party
logistics providers generate their own scan codes, which never appear on a list of Amazon facilities.
You misread a character. Genuinely common. Zero against O, one against I, five against S. When I
have chased a code that seemed not to exist, roughly half the time it was a transcription slip.
None of these change what you should do, which is wait for the tracking to update rather than
investigate the building.
Other Amazon buildings you may see in tracking
Beyond fulfillment, sortation, and delivery, several other building types appear in tracking,
and each explains a different oddity.
An air hub exists to move freight between regions by plane, so a scan there can put your parcel a
long way from anywhere you expected. A receive center, also called a cross-dock, takes bulk
inbound freight from manufacturers and splits it for onward distribution, meaning nothing inside is
assigned to a customer. Amazon Warehousing and Distribution holds bulk inventory upstream and
tops up fulfillment centers on its own schedule. Returns centers inspect and grade what comes
back. Third-party partner sites are contracted rather than owned, which is why the address
sometimes looks like an ordinary industrial unit.
In our experience these account for most of the tracking scans people cannot make sense of.
Visiting, calling, and collecting
One question worth answering before you ask it: none of these buildings are open to the
public. Fulfillment centers, sortation centers, and delivery stations do not accept visitors, do
not hold parcels for collection, and do not have a desk that will discuss your order. If you need to
collect something, Amazon Locker and Amazon Hub Counter locations are the designated points, and
they are entirely separate from the facilities listed here.
The same goes for phone numbers. Several published lists of Amazon facilities include site numbers,
and I’d ignore them. They ring switchboards that cannot look up an order, and in our experience
people waste an afternoon on that before calling Amazon customer service, which is where the
question belonged in the first place.
Selling into Alaska is a decision, not a default
Like Hawaii, this is one of the few states where the seller question is about your customers rather
than about warehousing.
Alaska is expensive to serve and easy to serve badly. If you fulfill your own orders, shipping
costs run far above the mainland average, and a flat national shipping rate loses money on every
Alaskan order. Many sellers quietly exclude the state instead, which is at least honest.
If you use FBA, Amazon handles it and the cost sits inside your fees rather than landing on you per
order. That is the strongest practical argument for FBA on any product with genuine nationwide demand.
Two things worth checking before you sell here. Whether your product can travel at all, since
batteries, aerosols, liquids, and anything hazardous face real restrictions. And whether your delivery
promise is realistic, because a missed promise damages your On-Time Delivery Rate regardless of
distance, as our guide to
what a carrier delay means sets out.
I’d rather a seller served Alaska properly or excluded it clearly. The middle option, promising
mainland speeds and missing them, produces the complaints.
What this page is for, and what it is not. Worth being direct about, because I’ve found
readers assume more precision than any compiled list can offer.
The data comes from public listings, not from Amazon, so it lags reality in both directions:
recently closed sites may persist, recently opened ones may be missing. The type column repeats what
those listings said. In our experience it holds up well, though not perfectly.
Treat the page as a lookup for a code you already have and as a way to place your parcel in the
sequence. I’d not treat it, or any similar list, as an exact census of Amazon’s buildings.
FAQ
Does Amazon have a warehouse in Alaska?
Amazon operates a sortation center in Anchorage plus a Fairbanks site and a partner location. There is
no Amazon fulfillment center in Alaska, so no inventory is stored in the state the way it is on the
mainland.
What is WGE2?
WGE2 is Amazon’s sortation center at 5900 Old Seward Hwy in Anchorage. It is by far the most searched
Alaska facility code. Because it is a sortation center, a parcel scanned there is already packed and
moving toward delivery.
Why does Amazon delivery take longer in Alaska?
Because goods travel roughly 1,400 miles from the Seattle area by sea or air before reaching
Anchorage, and communities off the road system add a further leg by small aircraft or barge. Delivery
windows exceed mainland Prime promises as a result.
Are there Amazon facilities outside Anchorage and Fairbanks?
Not in our listing. There is nothing recorded in Juneau, on the Kenai Peninsula, in the Southeast
panhandle, or in rural Alaska, which is why those areas wait longest.
Why are some Amazon items unavailable in Alaska?
Because items that cannot travel safely by air or sea are restricted, including many hazardous
materials, aerosols, and certain batteries and liquids. Oversized goods also frequently carry
surcharges.
Should sellers ship to Alaska?
Treat it as a deliberate decision. Self-fulfilled shipping costs run far above mainland rates, so a
flat national rate loses money on every order. FBA absorbs the difference into your fees, which is the
simpler route for most sellers.
Last updated: August 30, 2026. Compiled from public listings; Amazon’s facility network changes
continually and this page will lag it. Facilities do not accept visitors or handle parcel
inquiries. For warehouse employment, Amazon’s own hiring site carries current openings and is
the only accurate source.
