Fairbanks North Star Borough County, Alaska · Rebate
Bounty Program (Fairbanks North Star Borough Air Quality Division)
Run by Fairbanks North Star Borough Air Quality Division
Property owners in the Fairbanks North Star Borough's PM2.5 nonattainment area can get $600 each for up to three wood, pellet or coal heating appliances they remove and turn in for destruction, with no deed restriction. One time per property.
Amounts
How much you get
$600 for each installed wood, pellet or coal burning appliance removed and destroyed, up to three per property. The payment is taxable income and needs a W-9.
Eligibility
Do I qualify?
You need to meet all 6 of these.
Your home is in Fairbanks North Star Borough County, Alaska.
The property must be inside the Borough's PM2.5 nonattainment area (not the whole Borough).
You must be the legal owner of the property through completion; selling first forfeits the payment.
Once per property. Not for an appliance installed after 2017 through the Borough's Wood Stove Change Out Program (exceptions may apply), or one bought with federal funds.
Property taxes must be current throughout. Any wood, pellet or coal appliance that stays must be registered with Alaska DEC before payment.
What to doPay any delinquent Borough property tax, and register any remaining solid fuel appliance with Alaska DEC.
Approval (a purchase order) comes before removal; you then have 90 days to finish, and the old appliance must be brought to the Borough Air Quality Office for destruction.
What to doApply, let a Borough verifier check the appliance, and wait for the purchase order before removing it.
Equipment
What equipment counts
Applying
How to apply
All requirements must be completed within 90 days of authorization. Get approved before you buy anything.
- Check the property is in the nonattainment area and you own it.
- Fill out the Bounty Program application and a W-9.
List each appliance to be removed and any solid fuel appliance that will stay.
- Let a Borough-approved verifier check the appliances.
- Receive the purchase order and instruction packet by mail.
You have 90 days from authorization to finish.
- Remove the appliance and bring it to the Air Quality Office for destruction.
- Receive $600 per appliance.
Bounty Program application signed by all owners
W-9 (one owner)
Forms and instructions, including for applying by mailFNSB: Change Out Programs · FNSB Code Chapter 21.28 (section 21.28.040, Ord. 2025-11)
Questions about applying(907) 459-1005 or aqip@fnsb.gov
Stacking
Use it with
Can’t be combined withChange Out Programs (Fairbanks North Star Borough Air Quality Division)
Your address
Next steps
Check that it covers your address. This program has to approve you before you buy anything, so start with the program, not a contractor quote.
Is it available at your address?
Before anything else
Apply, let a Borough verifier check the appliance, and wait for the purchase order before removing it.
Your quote request is in If a contractor we work with serves your ZIP, they can contact you. We take one request per person; contact us to change it.
Get an email if this program changes
We'll write if its amount, status or deadline changes. Nothing else.
FAQ
Questions
How much does Bounty Program (Fairbanks North Star Borough Air Quality Division) pay?
$600 for each installed wood, pellet or coal burning appliance removed and destroyed, up to three per property. The payment is taxable income and needs a W-9.
Do renters qualify?
You must be the legal owner of the property through completion; selling first forfeits the payment.
Do I need approval before I buy?
Yes. Apply before you buy or install anything; purchases made first don’t qualify. Approval (a purchase order) comes before removal; you then have 90 days to finish, and the old appliance must be brought to the Borough Air Quality Office for destruction. Apply, let a Borough verifier check the appliance, and wait for the purchase order before removing it.
What’s the deadline?
No fixed deadline. Apply any time while it’s open.
Is it still available?
Yes. It was open when we last checked, on October 27, 2026.
Plain words
Words used on this page
References
Sources
This page is built from these official pages, run by the program itself.
- FNSB: Voluntary Bounty Program Application (rev. 6-12-25)
- FNSB: Change Out Programs
- FNSB Code Chapter 21.28 (section 21.28.040, Ord. 2025-11)
When one of these pages changes, we re-check this page against it.
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