Live Power Outages Near You

Search your state, county, city or ZIP code above, tap “Power outages near me” to use your location, or tap your state on the map. Each state and county page shows current outages reported by participating utilities, estimated restoration times where a utility provides one, active National Weather Service alerts, and the electric companies that serve the area. If your utility isn't listed as reporting, check its own outage map or call it directly.

If some lights or outlets still work, check your breaker panel and any GFCI outlets first. If the whole house is dark, look at your neighbors and the streetlights. Dark neighbors mean a wider outage: search your ZIP code here to see what utilities are reporting for your county, then check your electric company's outage map for your address and report the outage so crews know about it.

We refresh live data about every 5 minutes. The DOE ODIN feed updates every 5 to 15 minutes as participating utilities publish, Duke Energy's public feed about every 20 minutes and the State of Maryland's county totals about every 15 minutes. Every page shows the time of the newest data behind it, and the badge changes from “Live” to “Delayed” when a feed is more than an hour old.

Live outage counts come from the U.S. Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Outage Data Initiative Nationwide (ODIN), which publishes outage data shared by participating utilities, plus Duke Energy's public outage feed and the State of Maryland's county totals. Weather alerts come from the National Weather Service, space-weather data from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, cyber advisories from CISA, and reliability statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (Form EIA-861).

Sharing live outage data is voluntary, so many utilities don't do it yet. “Limited data” means too few of a state's customers are covered for us to say what's happening there. It does not mean the power is out or that it is on. We show this instead of a misleading zero, and coverage grows as more utilities and states publish their data.

Most customer outage minutes come from weather: thunderstorms, high winds, hurricanes, winter ice and wildfire-related shutoffs. EIA data show that major events drive most of the year-to-year swings in outage time. Equipment failure, vegetation contact, animals and vehicle accidents cause many smaller outages.

Both are real but rare risks. Cyberattacks have caused blackouts abroad, notably in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016, and U.S. agencies have warned about state-sponsored intrusions into utility networks. Severe geomagnetic storms can stress high-voltage transformers. Our Grid Threat Monitor tracks these signals live, and our guides explain the evidence without hype.