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United States Power Outage Map
- bluechair 2y agoSuggestion to the void: update the map so that it shows the counties and districts without power.
- vonadz 2y agoIf you click on the state, you get a county view.
- niceice 2y agoIt's actually amazing looking at this map on a percentage basis. States with 10 million plus customers that only have a few thousand without power. Incredible achievement if you think about it.
- jdlyga 2y agoWow what happened. Was there a bad storm?
- Willingham 2y agoSevere thunderstorms this morning https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/02/16/live-updates-tornado-watch-issued-severe-storms-push-through-north-georgia-this-morning/ https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/02/16/live-updates-tor...
- the_plus_one 2y agoCan't speak for the entire country, but rural Virginia had a nasty ice storm pass through earlier this week [1]. I lost power for about 40 hours. [1]: https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/02/12/36k-plus-virginians-lose-power-winter-storm/ https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/02/12/36k-plus-virginians-lose-po...
- warmedcookie 2y agoNot too bad, but here in Memphis most power lines are old and above ground, so any moderate system coming through will knock out a significant chunk of the grid.
- b0b_d0e 2y agoSouth of Atlanta we had a tornado warning around 5am. Several downed trees and power outages but I haven't heard of any actual tornadoes that touched down in my area yet.
- echelon 2y agoI'm in Georgia. There was a bad thunderstorm front that came through last night and briefly took out the power to my building. High winds and tornado watches across much of the state. We really need to bury our power lines. It's very typical of this season as we experience several rounds of rapid temperature fluctuations between the 60s and 70s and the 20s and 30s. Late winter and early spring typically bring storms and tornadoes to our region. It's funny to see everyone rush outside donning springtime apparel and then be hit with the coldest days of the season just after. And it happens every year. "Fake spring", we call it. We've got a forecast for snow this upcoming Wednesday too! Fingers crossed.
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- Moto7451 2y agoLike the other Georgia commenters, had a severe storm starting at 4AM trailing off at 6 and ending at 7. We lost power for about 20 minutes, all my essential gear stayed up on battery power. I’m on underground power but we have trees down in Atlanta and a lot of people lost power for a few hours. What’s amusing is this is all on the heels of another discussion about electrical grids in the US vs Europe and a lot of points made are exactly what we experienced. Our grid can be technically as competent as anywhere but a giant storm sending a tree through a transformer or distribution line is going to make for a bad day.
- _heimdall 2y agoOne note I haven't seen mentioned here yet, we got a lot of rain last week prior to this storm. Here in Alabama we got around 4.5" in my part of the state, that's nearly our average for an entire month. The ground was already very soft before this storm, making trees more susceptible to high winds. We also had a lot of lightning here last night. I'm actually surprised I didn't lose power. I'm in a fairly rural area with mostly above ground power lines and lots of trees within falling distance of power poles and lines.
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- DonHopkins 2y agoAirplanes keep falling out of the sky and infrastructure keeps failing as Trump fires more and more FAA, DOE, and FEMA employees, and hands the reigns of government over to Musk and Putin. But just wait until Trump pardons Jeffrey Skilling, and puts him in charge of the Department of Energy Office of Electricity, to overhaul grid modernization, cybersecurity, and resilience running the national power grid, the Energy Information Administration, to provide power grid data and analysis, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to regulate interstate electricity transmission, wholesale power markets, and reliability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling
- anticorporate 2y agoLooks like someone in Atlanta tried to turn on an RTX 5090. /s
- booi 2y agoPG&E with less than 10,000 customers out of power? Lies.
- alsoforgotmypwd 2y agoBecause we were all burned out or forced out with absurd home insurance rates.
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- bee_rider 2y agoGonna be some yucky weather going over the Northeast today. Winds, rain, then cold. Eww.
- vonadz 2y agoYeah heard there is ice coming down in some places. Stay safe!
- martinsnow 2y agoThis is a lot isn't it?
- bearjaws 2y agoNot really, 100k homes in Georgia is roughly 3% of homes.
- lillecarl 2y agoIf 3% of Sweden was without power it would be ground breaking news, a media shitstorm and remediations to not let it happen again. We're further north so power is more essential to human life here, but 3% is a huge number to me when we're talking something as fundamental as electricity.
- hhh 2y agoPower outages are pretty common at least where I have lived in America. It's not uncommon to lose power for 20-30 minutes and sometimes up to a few hours. Outages with storms are extremely common. More rare act-of-god scenarios like the 2009 ice storm[1] left my family without power for 2 weeks. I'm sure there was some action taken, but I continued to lose power at that house at least 2-3 times a month easily. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2009_North_American_ice_storm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2009_North_American_ic...
- ossobuco 2y agoIn Italy I think I had a single power outage in the last 10 years and it was planned ahead of time for maintenance work.
- WrongAssumption 2y agoThat's cool that you haven't been affected, but they happen frequently in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20230719/blackouts-hit-italian-cities-as-heatwave-drives-energy-use https://www.thelocal.it/20230719/blackouts-hit-italian-citie...
- cluckindan 2y agoNow we know where Elon’s xAI data centers are.
- vonadz 2y agoHopefully they get power back soon. I'm one of the people behind the website, so if you have any questions, feel free to reach out! Especially if you're interested in the data :)
- iandanforth 2y agoThis is a very interesting business. Simple and appealing to a general user but apparently worth $1k/m for business users who want access to consolidated data via API. I'm sure there's a host of businesses like this, but I don't know who the customer base is. $1k/m seems to be a lot, but I don't have a need!
- brookst 2y agoGrocery chains where lack of power = no freezers = spoilage come to mind.
- dfxm12 2y agoCertainly grocery stores don't need to ask someone else if their freezers are getting power, no? They would have monitors, people and computers, that are doing this job. Additionally, even as a residential customer, my utility reaches out to me when they suspect there's an outage...
- alt227 2y agoIs there not a possibility that if a neighbouring area has gone down, then your area might be at risk of going down if they need to do maintenace on all surrounding areas to fix the issue? I would imagine its useful for store owners to know the power is out a mile down the road, and might enable them to start making preparations in case they are next.
- brookst 2y agoThink more about centralized ops. Any individual store will of course notice their power has gone out. But what do they do then? Call around to every nearby store asking if they still have power, and have space in cold storage? While those stores may well be calling yet other stores? How does that work when there are 6 affected stores and 12 nearby ones that still have power? Maybe 3 of those have lots of cold storage, and another 4 have some but not lots free. A centralized view could easily be worth $1k/month. (and you are very fortunate if your utility reaches out to you in mass outages (>1000 customers), and especially if they do it via API your systems can act on)
- leeoniya 2y agowhy not have a more granular heatmap as the main viz? coloring by state boundaries is really unintuitive and often misleading, even without Mercator projection criticisms.
- cheschire 2y agoIt depends on what your goal is, I suppose. If it's just to see the organization of data by administrative boundary, this is fine. For the people this company is selling to, that's probably even the ideal. However for us in the cheap seats, we most likely as a group want to see number of people impacted. For that, administrative boundaries are the inverse of what we want given administrative boundaries tend to shrink as population increases. Just goes to show the gap between B2C and B2B. In this case it seems this company knows their target audience, and it's not us.
- leeoniya 2y agoim not sure i follow the logic of state boundaries being a useful level of granularity for any audience. if some suburb of Austin has a power outage affecting 10k people in a 3mi radius, that means i get to see 8.7% of the contiguous US land area turn yellow unless i specifically select to zoom to TX to discover that the affected area is 10,000x smaller?
- cheschire 2y agoTexas is an especially interesting example you've chosen. For political reasons, people will often focus on the entire state due to its completely independent grid from surrounding states. Whether that tells the story you or I want to read or not, is something else entirely though.
- vonadz 2y agoBecause our priority is having the page load quickly, and having to load data for 3k+ counties on a national map would slow things down. The state view is a compromise between speed and giving the user enough info to then go more granular by checking the state view they're interested in.
- lisper 2y agoPG&E publishes a real-time outage map with granularity down to the individual neighborhood grid: https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools/outage-map/ https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools/outage-map/
- ThinkingGuy 2y agoGeorgia Power, also: https://outagemap.georgiapower.com/ https://outagemap.georgiapower.com/
- hk1337 2y agoOncor (Texas) too. https://stormcenter.oncor.com https://stormcenter.oncor.com
- magneticnorth 2y agoAs does PSE (puget sound energy) https://www.pse.com/en/outage/outage-map https://www.pse.com/en/outage/outage-map
- joezydeco 2y agoAs does ComEd (Northern Illinois and Chicago) https://secure.comed.com/FaceBook/Pages/outagemap.aspx?ipid=promo-link-block1 https://secure.comed.com/FaceBook/Pages/outagemap.aspx?ipid=...
- natebc 2y agoDuke Energy too: https://outagemaps.duke-energy.com https://outagemaps.duke-energy.com
- telcal 2y agoPSE&G which covers parts of NJ https://outagecenter.pseg.com/external/default.html https://outagecenter.pseg.com/external/default.html
- LeoPanthera 2y agoPerhaps they have improved now, but in the major winter storms of 2-3 years ago, we were regularly frustrated by how PG&E seemed to be spending more time on their innovative ways of reporting outages, but not actually fixing outages. If your power is out, the "estimated restoration time" is a complete guess. We used to enjoy how it used to jump forwards 24 hours at exactly 6pm every day, during our 8-day outage.
- jeroenhd 2y agoDoes the US map have a different definition for "power outage" than the Canada/UK map on the same website? Unless I've missed news about a tornado or hurricane, the outage statistics for the US seem rather extreme to me.
- _heimdall 2y agoWe had a strong storm come through yesterday afternoon and night. I didn't lose power at home but I'm not surprised that around 85k in my state did. I saw quite a few down trees and leaning power poles this morning. Part of the problem was that, at least here, we got 4" of rain earlier this week. This storm brought more rain, high winds, and a lot of lightning.
- 827a 2y agoVery bad ice and wind storm across the eastern seaboard this weekend.
- thedougd 2y agoSeveral days of rain (couple inches) and high winds this morning as a front moved through.
- Symbiote 2y agoAccording to this report [1] the average time between blackouts in 5 years in the UK, vs 3½ years in the USA and less than 12 months in Canada. (Page 8.) [1] https://reports.electricinsights.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/191202_Drax_Q3_Report.pdf https://reports.electricinsights.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20... (via https://reports.electricinsights.co.uk/reports/q3-2019/ https://reports.electricinsights.co.uk/reports/q3-2019/)
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- xyst 2y agoWith our aging infrastructure and orange man administration trying their damn best to dismantle the federal government in preparation for billionaire kleptocracy to extract as much value from USA. I don’t see it getting any better.
- kleiba 2y agoI'd love to have the opportunity to compare this to other countries.
- thunkingdeep 2y agoThree unlucky people in Wyoming without power :/
- alsoforgotmypwd 2y agoCustomers, not people. Could be residential or commercial. Could even be low priority, unoccupied customers in the middle of nowhere. The advances since the adoption of smart meters is grid operators know exactly who is using how much power and who is out in near-real time as the cellular modems (assuming there is cell service in the vicinity) tells them right away when there's a problem. I'm curious if large customers have satellite to cell nanocell access points to keep in touch with remote sites and for their critical vendors, like electricity utilities, to also gain access where there isn't ordinarily cell service.
- thunkingdeep 2y agoOh so three customers could be thousands of people if it was a factory that was closed or something like that. It makes sense to prioritize repairing the biggest dollar signs first, I suppose.
- bombcar 2y agoOr it could literally be three houses - depends on how accurate the reporting is when there’s a minor fault. I’ve seen a wire melt which took out three houses - not sure if it ever appeared in state-wide data.
- sdenton4 2y agoLooking at the solar data pages: Fascinating that the average power usage in Alabama is more than double California. (10kw vs 4kw) I assume that's lots of air conditioning? Or perhaps downstream effects of appliance regulations?
- natebc 2y agoIt's absolutely air conditioning. It's a very humid place.
- fuzzythinker 2y agoIt needs to show % instead of n-k+.
- samwillis 2y agoThe link is to their poweroutage.us, but they also cover Canada (https://poweroutage.com/ca https://poweroutage.com/ca), the UK (https://poweroutage.com/uk https://poweroutage.com/uk) and the EU (https://poweroutage.com/eu https://poweroutage.com/eu). For some reason they don't link to these from the US site. Really interesting data, particularly when you compare the very low level of outages in Canada/UK compared with the US.
- scrlk 2y agoThe UK regulator introduced the Interruptions Incentive Scheme in 2002 to encourage distribution networks to reduce customer interruptions and minutes lost. It triggered a large wave of investment in network automation (remote switching, auto reclosers etc.)
- Scoundreller 2y agoSo basically the difference between 9s is investment/cost. At least here (Canada), utils push all of their costs to end-users & IIUC have an incentive to have high capex/low opex networks because of regulated return. As a Canadian residential electrical customer, we pay a lot in base fees from what I hear relative to US customers. Sure it's more reliable, but tbh, it's not worth spending much to get 5 9s (5 mins of downtime a year) vs 4 9s (50 minutes/yr). Heck, even 500 minutes/yr would be fine for me. But commercial/industrial users won't feel the same way, and managed to successfully spread the cost of adding 9s among users that largely don't care.
- icegreentea2 2y agoBtw, at least for Ontario and Quebec, current average downtime is below 4 9s, and quite close to your quoted 500m/yr time. Ontario's Energy Board has a dashboard (https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNmY1YjU0NmUtMTJhYi00NmVhLWJlYzMtNDE4NTcxNDZmNGZmIiwidCI6Ijc0MTNjMjNjLWE3MjUtNDEzNC04OTQ2LTExMGZmMWUyZDBlNiJ9 https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNmY1YjU0NmUtMTJhYi00N...) that says in 2023, total average outage time was ~5hrs (and that's somewhat typical of the last 10ish years). Hydro Quebec says that in 2023 (https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/hqd-03-01-performance.pdf?v=2024-04-22 https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/hqd-0... FR sorry) the average downtime was ~4.5 hours.
- m3047 2y agoWhere I live the City helpfully^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H performatively lets you see where the power is out, but provides no historical information. They pay VertiGIS to provide this service. At least today (I checked, it was something else last time I checked). Woot! "Performatively": yes. If you can't see historical information, it's performative, it misses the historical case which is the important market. If you're there and the power's out, you know. If you can do something about it in realtime, you will; otherwise you will wait until the power comes back on and disaster recovery kicks in: From when to when? For how long? If you're not there, then go directly to disaster recovery. That's my opinion, and I'm not changing it. The second important consideration for a democratically governed entity would be: are we equally served? If not, why not? Retrospective information for the entire stakeholder group is required. Too much ado is made of "security", and that historical information is somehow a threat to operational security. If the power is out now, the live info is the impacted targets of opportunity right now (or the ones to phone / smish when the power comes back on); if the power was out in the past, what's the threat? Are adversaries going to pre-position in areas where outages are predictable due to some foreseeable conditions? Then maybe the City should preposition resources, too. I welcome other viewpoints on this aspect. On a practical level I have systems which are always on and logging with sufficient granularity so I know when the power went out... and when it came back on. I would think that telemetry from locations within the service area would be ultimately a more reliable way of collecting information about outages, without relying on the utilities which can't be relied on (outside of a contractual arrangement). This telemetry could be active, or passive: geolocating web browser and other internet activity (even pinging or SYNs) would likely do an adequate job, I'm sure that stationary resources could be identified in the dataset. I'm sure this is colored by the fact that I'm an "internet plumber" and telemetry and observability is what I do for a living.
- luxurytent 2y agoHow does the US do this? In Canada, everything is so splintered. Open Data is available at various levels (municipal, provincial), but it's in different formats, many government bodies don't expose anything, and it's all very .. uncooridnated. But this is not the first time I've seen data from the US which feels so well organized. Is the secret sauce the data/providers, or is the creator of this site just very good at organizing a big mess?
- notwhereyouare 2y agoi think the creator is good. I think they are just scraping different power company outage maps. If you look in some places there's 0 data because the power company doesn't have a true outage map
- icegreentea2 2y agoYeah, and for context, there is a Canada version of the map. https://poweroutage.com/ca/ https://poweroutage.com/ca/
- philistine 2y agoEuh, I don't think Manitoba Hydro has 600,000 customers in Québec. I wouldn't trust that map.
- momothereal 2y agoIf you go on the page for Manitoba Hydro, it says there is 1 customer in Quebec: "South Cypress". Although South Cypress is a municipality in Manitoba. Seems like a data issue where the municipality was double-counted and one in Quebec for some reason. https://poweroutage.com/ca/utility/1408 https://poweroutage.com/ca/utility/1408
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- croisillon 2y agois that what happens when you vote for the Distressful Outages (of) Generated Electricity?
- gunian 2y agovery cool love tools that make the game more accessible to the less smart folk like me fires and power outage wonder what else is used
- reader9274 2y agoThat poor dude in Maine
- TZubiri 2y agoIs this outage at all related with the recent gvmt personnel reductions?
- teknopaul 2y agoSad that the US has all these power outages. It comes from rampant capitalism. No obligation to provide redundancy so the cheapest solution it wores on wooden poles and one tree down leads to outages. In every weather event in the US the news reports xxx people without power. In the rest of the world it isn't a stat that makes the news. I presume this is because redundant grids don't often go down and when they dothe places where it happens has bigger problems.
- techolic 2y agoSurprised that Puerto Rico isn't included, which has a lot of power outages of different scale.
- TimCTRL 2y agoWait, you guys have power outages in the US?
- bookofjoe 2y agoThis map is spot-on! It shows Virginia, where I live, in red with over 100k customers without power. Here is a link to a video I took in my back yard about 45 minutes ago when the wind was fierce: my power went out about 10 minutes later. https://youtube.com/shorts/N1rcUk-1kNM?si=1s8uCdvfqa5VmrXL https://youtube.com/shorts/N1rcUk-1kNM?si=1s8uCdvfqa5VmrXL
- js2 2y agoHaven't lost power here in my neck of NC yet, but I was sure we would. Blew through here around 9 am this morning: https://ibb.co/zhrxwx93 https://ibb.co/zhrxwx93 Still pretty gusty out but nothing like this morning.
- cluckindan 2y agoThat doesn’t look too fierce… the worst storm I’ve seen live had the entire treeline bending over like there was an ent king approaching from downwind.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoRelevant: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?layers=d4090758322c4d32a4cd002ffaa0aa12 https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?layers=d40907...
- freeopinion 2y agoLive power outage data is intentionally obscured by power providers as a matter of public safety. They report outages, and numbers of affected customers, etc. But efforts are made to ensure the locations of those customers cannot be too easily weaponized. It remains a question how effective those efforts are.
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