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About PowerOutage.us

PowerOutage.us collects, records, and aggregates live power outage data from utilities all over the United States, with the goal to create the single most reliable and complete source of power outage information available.

Utility Information

We are open to work with any electric utility to add their outage data to the PowerOutage.us system. Learn about our partnership process and integration options.

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Major Events

This system has tracked major outage events, including hurricanes, grid failures, and severe weather. Explore documented historical events with detailed statistics.

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Platform Statistics

159,014,381
USA Customers
17,019,501
CA Customers
27,457,000
UK Customers
15,000,000
EU Customers
7,654,461
Largest Tracked Outage
1101
Utilities Tracked
1555
Utilities Found
Monthly Traffic
37M
Average requests per month
Peak Traffic
1.8M
Requests per hour (2024/10/09)
Google Search
8.1M impressions
545k clicks monthly

Contact Information

Email

For all inquiries:

info@poweroutage.us

Social Media

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Twitter: PowerOutage_US
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Platform Details

Most states have multiple electric utilities, many small, some big. With these large numbers of companies, it can be hard to get a true overall status of the power grid in a particular area. This project collects information from over 800 Utilities into one place, with more being added all the time: Making this site the most complete source of power outage information currently available.

Most utilities put few resources behind their publicly facing OMSs (Outage Management Systems). They are focused on getting their customers reconnected, as they should be. However, this means that during big outage events where many people want to know the status of the power in a particular area, the utility's OMS can be overwhelmed if not completely unresponsive. Meanwhile PowerOutage.us stands up to heavy web traffic without faltering, allowing people directly affected by an outage event and onlookers to stay informed and up to date.

In addition, no utility releases detailed historical power outage information, so we store all the information we collect; Making this project the only source of detailed historical power outage information. While this historical data is not available directly on the site, you can contact us for more information.

Why We Built This

From the original founder, Chachi:

I created this system out of a fascination with watching power outage maps during big storms as a kid and unique datasets as an adult. I like working on interesting projects and for a while had wanted to build something big that others could use and find interest in.

Since I started this in 2016, it has grown way beyond what I could have ever hoped for, now as my full-time job, and even employing others. It continues to bring me great satisfaction in building something used by millions of people.

From new leadership:

Firstly, we hold both Chachi and what he built in very high regard; there are very few solo projects that have as big of an impact on as many people as PowerOutage.us. We built our own power outage tracking solution and understand the monumental effort it takes to produce and maintain such an elaborate system. It's our goal to continue building on top of the foundation set by Chachi, to not only continue delivering vital data to the general public and our customers, but to go even further by providing tools and insights to utilities, government, and businesses.

We will continue being the #1 source of power outage data.