All 50 states and Washington, DC
A clear picture of your power.
Find the official outage and utility sources for where you live, and learn what outage maps, grid alerts and weather warnings do and do not tell you.
Start with your state
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, DC
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
What this site shows today
Power Grid Watch does not show live outages yet. Each state page takes you to the official sources that do: your utility, your state regulator and your state emergency agency. We will add data one layer at a time, and only after we have checked what each source covers and how fresh it is. Sources and coverage
Five questions this site is built around
Is there an outage near me?
Your utility's own outage page is the place to check and to report. We point you to it.
When will power return?
Only your utility can estimate that. Nobody can work it out from regional numbers, and we will not try.
How reliable is electricity here?
Utilities report how often and how long service is interrupted each year. Here is how to read those numbers.
Is the regional grid under strain?
A grid alert is not the same as an outage on your street. Learn the difference.
What should I do?
Official safety guidance for before, during and after an outage.
Three things that are not the same
A local outage
Customers have lost power, usually because of damage to nearby lines or equipment. Your utility reports it.
Regional grid strain
The operator of the high-voltage system is short on supply or asks people to conserve. Most of the time, the lights stay on.
A weather or hazard alert
The National Weather Service warns of dangerous conditions. A warning is not a prediction that your power will go out.