Observed arrival · 2026-11-12
Power Out Map: a county-by-county record of outages
An interactive map and archive uses public outage records to show how often power fails, how long outages last, and how quickly service returns across US counties.
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- People comparing outage history where they live
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- The site describes its 2025 archive as 233 million readings, one for every county every 15 minutes.
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The homepage pairs a live outage view with historical county records and event-by-event accounts. Its examples report measures such as peak customers out, time above 600,000 outages, time to half restoration, and the hardest-hit county. Navigation also connects reliability data to topics including nursing homes, electric bills, wildfire shutoffs, and storm risk.
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