Power outages in Connecticut
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
14
customers reported out statewide · 4 counties reporting
Updated 11:37 PM EDT.
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Connecticut counties (8)
Utility coverage in Connecticut
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Also tracked live — opens in the app
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Connecticut.
Historical outage patterns in Connecticut
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 9,485 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Connecticut between 2014 and 2025 across all 8 counties — 123 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 3.5 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (30% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2016.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~190,956 customers out in Fairfield County in August 2020, restored after about 7.9 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: August 2020 (8 counties).
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Connecticut?
Electric utilities we track in Connecticut include Eversource and United Illuminating. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.