Anchorage's distress reads mostly through the bank book: bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line stands at $391.5mm, or 11.07% of the CRE lent into the metro, one of 2 legs elevated out of four, while store closures sit at 5 closures (3.45 per 100k jobs) and layoff notices (WARN) at 0 notices (0%) and securitized loans in special servicing at 0 loan records (0%). Of 6 pairs of legs compared, 1 pairs with both legs elevated, 1 pairs with both legs quiet and 4 pairs where the legs disagree, with 0 pairs that cannot be read because a leg is blind; the bank reading is allocated by branch deposits rather than confirmed at the call report, so it describes lender balance sheets rather than a property-level count, and the elevated bank leg against quiet WARN and quiet securitized servicing reads as lender stress with no employment event and no trust-paper default behind it.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
5 closures | 3.45 per 100k jobs | 92 of 392 | 90 of 392 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
0 notices | 0% | 314 of 382 | 308 of 382 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
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| bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line share of the CRE lent into this metro that sits at a lender over the blended-noncurrent line |
$391.5mm | 11.07% | 73 of 393 | 48 of 393 | elevated
allocated 2026-06-30
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| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
0 loan records | 0% | 220 of 335 | 220 of 335 | quiet 2026-09-29
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| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First National Bank Alaska AK | 56.4% | 240% total 323%
|
🔒 | 0.39% |
| Northrim Bank AK | 68.7% | 270% total 392%
|
🔒 | 0.99% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northrim Bank | $1.4B | 270% total 392%
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0.99% | 🔒 |
| First National Bank Alaska | $2.1B | 240% total 323%
|
0.39% | 🔒 |
Anchorage's refinancing picture leaves little headroom: $118.0mm of CMBS maturing in the window, across this many loans: 6, sits against local bank room of $289.1mm before and $51.7mm after $280.4mm in committed construction draws, giving a wall-to-room ratio of 2.28 before committed draws (0.41) and a rank, most strained of 34 out of this many metros ranked: 275. Only 2 qualifying local banks are counted, with 0 excluded from the calculation, so the thin room partly reflects a narrow lending footprint here rather than a measured credit judgment; the distressed share of this metro's CMBS reads 0.0%, and the total CMBS balance here is $422.3mm. On these figures the local banks do not appear to have the capacity to absorb the maturing wall without the committed draws being drawn down.
Over the trailing 365 window, the vetted readings for Anchorage, AK show 5 store closures and 0 WARN notices, with 0 jobs affected — a figure that is a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs — alongside 0 CRE bankruptcies, though that last figure is a STATE PROXY — a court case counts in its filing district and an SEC 8-K in the filer's state, not where the property is, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count. Each court case is counted once even when both PACER and CourtListener carry it. A court case's state is its filing district; an SEC 8-K or news item carries the filer's state. Coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable. Closures are matched ZIP -> CBSA and only APPROVED rows count (a pending, machine-extracted row is not yet a closure), and layoffs take the same ZIP -> CBSA and review treatment.