Do you predict outages?

Not today. Everything we return has been confirmed by the reporting utility. We're looking at a model for predicting outages by area, but we won't ship a forecast dressed up as fact.

Do you cover my entire footprint?

We have the most comprehensive coverage of any power outage API, spanning most U.S. utilities. Send us your footprint and we'll come back with a coverage map and any gaps, before you write a line of integration code.

Do you provide estimated restoration times?

Yes, when the utility publishes one. ETR and reported cause come through exactly as the utility reports them. Not every utility publishes either field, so coverage varies by provider.

How hard is integration?

We can usually get you a trial key within hours so you can test against your own systems. It's REST, with one schema across every utility we cover, so you build it once.

Who we serve

Telecommunications & Network Providers

One source of grid truth for multi-utility footprints.

PowerOutage.com gives you one endpoint for outside-plant power status across every electric utility in your footprint. Correlate device alarms, triage faster, and stop rolling trucks to outages your crews can't do anything about.

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Why telecom teams use PowerOutage.com

Grid context that cuts false alarms, shortens verification, and keeps every team on the same page.

Check outside plant without the legwork. Find out whether a node, cabinet, hub, or site sits inside an active power event. You don't have to stitch together dozens of utility feeds to get there.
One endpoint for every utility you touch. Your network spans a lot of electric providers. No power outage API covers more of them than we do, and we serve all of it through a single endpoint, which keeps that complexity out of the NOC.
A cleaner signal for your NOC. Match grid outages against device alarms to cut false positives, adjust who gets paged, and stop sending crews to problems they can't fix.
Restoration times and cause from the utility. When the utility publishes an ETR and a cause, we pass both through. Triage stops being guesswork.
Everyone works from the same picture. Ops, NOC, field, and comms all see what's out, where it is, and how it's moving across service territory lines.

We handle external verification and context. There's no predictive modeling here, and you never have to send us customer PII.

Services available today

Aggregated Power Status API

The most comprehensive coverage of any power outage API, in one normalized feed.

Look up outages by GPS coordinate, county, utility service territory, or polygon.

One schema across every utility we cover, so you build the integration once.

Outage counts, restoration times, and cause, exactly as the utility reports them.

Refreshed every 10 minutes, from statewide totals down to individual utilities.

Common workflows

Work from the same view of the grid that utilities and grid operators do.

Alarm triage

Flag a site-down alarm as power-related before anyone gets paged, and route the ticket from there.

Proactive messaging

Confirm a regional power event before it hits your status page or the IVR script.

Routing & backup planning

Watch an event move across neighboring utilities, so you can prioritize generator checks and reroute before the next site drops.

Custom dashboard development

Need more than an API? We build dashboards around the way your team already works. Tell us what you're tracking and we'll scope it with you.

Security & reliability

You never send us customer PII. You pull in a national snapshot and query it with your locations.
Scoped API keys, limited to the endpoints and regions you actually need.
Redundant ingestion, monitoring, and alerting built for teams running around the clock.

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