When's the power back?
Here's a straight answer.

What this does that an outage map doesn't

Your utility's map tells you the power is out. It usually won't tell you when it's coming back — and when it does post a time, that time often moves. We estimate restoration independently, from the outage's own recovery trend, and then publish how well we did.

• An estimate before the utility posts one. We measure how fast customers are actually being restored and project from that — so there's an answer during the hours when the official map says nothing.
• We say when we don't know. If the trend is too weak, the outage is still growing, or it's too small to estimate reliably, the page says so instead of inventing a time. That's a deliberate rule, not a gap — see the methodology.
• We grade ourselves in public. Every estimate is scored against when power actually returned, misses included, on the accuracy page.
• We grade the utilities too. Same yardstick on their posted restoration times — including how often a posted time slips later.
• History for your specific county. How long outages here have actually lasted, drawn from 12 years of federal (DOE/ORNL) records plus our own tracking — not a national average.

Coverage: free county-by-county outage counts for every US county from federal data, plus more detailed live numbers straight from hundreds of utilities' own outage maps. How the estimate works · Data sources