Power outages in Massachusetts
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
64
customers reported out statewide · 7 counties reporting
Updated 11:36 AM EDT.
Includes 2 that a utility reports without saying which county — search your address for your exact status.
“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 Massachusetts counties (14)
Utility coverage in Massachusetts
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 Massachusetts.
Historical outage patterns in Massachusetts
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 18,609 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Massachusetts between 2014 and 2025 across all 14 counties — 278 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 3.8 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (29% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2025.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~351,202 customers out in Plymouth County in October 2021, restored after about 44 hr.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: March 2018 (9 counties) and October 2021 (5 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 Massachusetts?
Electric utilities we track in Massachusetts include Eversource, National Grid, Norwood Municipal Light Department and Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.