McDonald's in Alaska

mcdonalds.com · Restaurants & Fast Casual · the Q3 2026 release

McDonald's has 29 locations in Alaska, its 49th-largest state of the 51 it operates in.

Every figure in this block is measured inside Alaska. Nothing in it is a rate.

McDonald's: local figures for Alaska.
Figure	Value	What it measures~~Alaska only~~
Locations in Alaska	29	Records the US location index holds for McDonald's inside Alaska right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time.
Rank among McDonald's's states	49th of 51	By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor.
States with a published McDonald's page	51	States where the brand has at least 3 locations. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published.
Locations across those states	15,826	The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor.
Alaska's share of that footprint	0.2%	A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate.
Index opening records in Alaska	0	A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today.
Cities with index opening records in Alaska	0	Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table.

The two counts above are measured differently and are both correct. Locations in Alaska is a presence snapshot of what operates there now; index opening records counts what opened inside the tracked window. A chain that already had 40 locations in Alaska and opened none reads 0 openings.
It is a count of OPENINGS, not of stores. Openings are diffs against the previous release, so a mature operator that finished its Alaska buildout before the window opened shows a large location count and no openings at all.
McDonald's's opening records arrive overwhelmingly as supplier batches rather than as dated store openings, so they are labelled index opening records and no quarterly pace is published from them.

Where McDonald's has opened in Alaska

Cities with index opening records recorded for McDonald's in Alaska. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total McDonald's locations.

McDonald's index opening records by city in Alaska, largest first.
City~~modal spelling in the index~~	Index opening records~~inside Alaska~~	Share of Alaska openings	Spellings folded~~raw variants in the index~~
McDonald's has no opening records in Alaska inside the tracked window. It operates there — the count above is a presence snapshot — but nothing opened while the window was watching.

0 cities with index opening records in Alaska.
Spellings are folded the same way the city URLs are built, so "St. Louis" and "St Louis" are one city rather than two. The most frequent raw spelling wins the label; "Spellings folded" is how many the index actually holds.
Cities are NOT linked: a city page is published only where at least three brands clear the floor, so a link from here would frequently point at a page that does not exist.

McDonald's in every state we publish

The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. Alaska is highlighted in place.

McDonald's locations by state.
Rank	State	Locations~~presence snapshot~~	Share of footprint~~published states only~~
1	Texas	1,436	9.1%
2	California	1,398	8.8%
3	Florida	1,023	6.5%
4	Illinois	759	4.8%
5	Ohio	703	4.4%
6	New York	671	4.2%
7	Pennsylvania	581	3.7%
8	Michigan	578	3.7%
9	North Carolina	554	3.5%
10	Georgia	542	3.4%
11	Virginia	429	2.7%
12	Indiana	410	2.6%
13	Tennessee	403	2.5%
14	Missouri	367	2.3%
15	Wisconsin	326	2.1%
16	Arizona	318	2.0%
17	New Jersey	316	2.0%
18	Maryland	308	1.9%
19	Kentucky	296	1.9%
20	Louisiana	288	1.8%
21	Alabama	286	1.8%
22	Washington	281	1.8%
23	South Carolina	272	1.7%
24	Massachusetts	267	1.7%
25	Colorado	252	1.6%
26	Minnesota	245	1.5%
27	Oklahoma	234	1.5%
28	Arkansas	207	1.3%
29	Mississippi	177	1.1%
30	Iowa	175	1.1%
31	Kansas	171	1.1%
32	Oregon	169	1.1%
33	Connecticut	163	1.0%
34	Nevada	158	1.0%
35	Utah	130	0.8%
36	West Virginia	122	0.8%
37	New Mexico	119	0.8%
38	Nebraska	89	0.6%
39	Idaho	78	0.5%
40	Hawaii	76	0.5%
41	Maine	72	0.5%
42	New Hampshire	61	0.4%
43	Montana	55	0.3%
44	Delaware	42	0.3%
45	North Dakota	36	0.2%
46	South Dakota	36	0.2%
47	Rhode Island	35	0.2%
48	Wyoming	33	0.2%
49	Alaska — this page	29	0.2%
50	Vermont	27	0.2%
51	District of Columbia	23	0.1%

A state appears here only with at least 3 locations. States below the floor are in the index but have no page, so this total is smaller than the national count.
Locations are a presence snapshot at the Q3 2026 release. They are not openings and they are not a change.

McDonald's nationwide

Context for the local figures above. None of it is a Alaska number.

McDonald's: national figures, for context only.
Figure	Value~~United States~~	Basis
US locations	15,839	At the latest vintage, Q3 2026.
US locations at the window start	15,820	The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024.
Net new over the window	+19	The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings.
Growth over the window	+0.1%	Percentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide.
Growth as a multiple	1.0x	The same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count.
Growth against its category	+2.2%	The brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out.
Mean quarterly change	+101	Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub.
Verified openings in the window	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide.
Openings pace, latest step	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	Verified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step.
Openings pace, prior step	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	The same measure one step earlier.
Direction	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	Accelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed.
Latest pace as a share of the base	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	The latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage.
Prior pace as a share of the base	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	The same measure one step earlier.
Reported openings pace, latest	+87	The server's own pre-aggregated pace. Shown because the page ranks on the series-derived figure above and the two must agree.
Reported openings pace, prior	+72	The same, one step earlier.
Largest single step's share of the change	579%	One release carrying most of the movement is the signature of a data-coverage artifact rather than of openings.
Steps that moved the same direction	71%	A real buildout moves one way most quarters. This and the row above are the credibility filter.
Passes the credibility filter	no	Largest step at or under half the movement, most steps in one direction, and net new above zero.
Cleared to print a percentage	yes	Whether the index's coverage of this brand is mature enough for a rate to mean anything.
Openings corroborated by coverage	150%	Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step.
Records matching the brand's own website	99%	Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain.
Records sharing an address with another operator	13%	High values mean host locations, sibling banners or shared kitchens rather than the chain's own leases.
Entity class	chain	Anything other than a chain is not published as a brand page in this state tier.
Category	Dining and Drinking > Restaurant > Fast Food Restaurant	The index's own category path for this brand.
Segment	Restaurants & Fast Casual	The published grouping the category rolls up to.
Match name in the index	mcdonald s	The string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name.
Display name	McDonald's	As published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's.
Domain	mcdonalds.com	The key every table on this tier is joined on.
Tracked window	8 vintages, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026	How many quarterly releases this brand has been measured across.
Vintage stamps	2024-11-19\|2024-12-03\|2025-03-06\|2025-06-10\|2025-09-09\|2025-12-16\|2026-03-18\|2026-07-09	Every release these figures were built from, oldest first, pipe-separated. It is a LIST of dates rather than one date, which is why nothing on this page prints it as a timestamp.

Every figure in this block is NATIONAL. It is identical on all 51 of McDonald's's state pages and is not apportioned to Alaska — dividing a national percentage into a state is not a fact about anything, which is why no Alaska growth rate is published anywhere on this page.
Openings are individually dated records new to the index; net new is the difference between two count snapshots. The two answer different questions and rarely match.
McDonald's's opening records arrive overwhelmingly as supplier batches rather than as dated store openings, so they are labelled index opening records and no quarterly pace is published from them.

McDonald's's count by quarter, nationwide

The national count series behind the figures above. Both readings of it — the raw count and the indexed one — are columns here.

McDonald's: US locations at each tracked vintage.
Quarter	Vintage date	US locations	Indexed~~100 = first vintage~~	Change vs prior
Q4 2024	2024-11-19	15,820	100	—
Q4 2024	2024-12-03	15,805	100	-15
Q1 2025	2025-03-06	15,588	99	-217
Q2 2025	2025-06-10	15,632	99	+44
Q3 2025	2025-09-09	15,658	99	+26
Q4 2025	2025-12-16	15,665	99	+7
Q1 2026	2026-03-18	15,729	99	+64
Q3 2026	2026-07-09	15,839	100	+110

Indexed values rebase the series to 100 at the first vintage with a non-zero count. A brand first measured at zero enters at 0 and reaches 100 one step later.
National figures. Not apportioned to any state.

McDonald's's openings by vintage step, nationwide

Each row is the difference between two consecutive releases, so there is one fewer step than there are quarters above.

McDonald's: index opening records per vintage step, with the real step length each pace is normalised by.
Step ends	Quarter	Openings~~in the step~~	Step length~~days~~	Pace~~per 91 days~~	Batch-suspect~~share of the step~~
Dec 3, 2024	Q4 2024	3	14	+20	0%
Mar 6, 2025	Q1 2025	33	93	+32	0%
Jun 10, 2025	Q2 2025	75	96	+71	67%
Sep 9, 2025	Q3 2025	29	91	+29	0%
Dec 16, 2025	Q4 2025	45	98	+42	20%
Mar 18, 2026	Q1 2026	73	92	+72	59%
Jul 9, 2026	Q3 2026	108	113	+87	3%

Steps are irregular, so a pace is openings divided by the step's real length and multiplied by 91 days rather than a raw quarterly count.
A batch-suspect share above half means the records were created on an index-wide vendor ingest day or bunched into a few days of the step; it impeaches the timing, not the existence of the stores.
National figures. Not apportioned to any state.

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