When will the power be back in Melrose, MA?

Melrose is a city of about 29,938 residents in Middlesex County.

National Grid has reported outages for Melrose by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Melrose is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.

ZIP codes in Melrose:

• 02176

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Around Melrose: the closest other places we track are Malden, about 2 miles to the south; Medford, about 3 miles to the southwest; Everett, about 3 miles to the south; and Revere, about 4 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Chelsea (4 mi S), Somerville (5 mi SW), Lynn (5 mi E), Woburn (5 mi NW), Cambridge (6 mi SW), Peabody (7 mi NE), Winthrop (7 mi SE) and Watertown (8 mi SW).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Lawrence (18 mi); northeast toward Beverly (13 mi); east toward Salem (11 mi); southeast toward Barnstable (65 mi); south toward Boston (9 mi); southwest toward Waltham (10 mi); west toward Marlborough (26 mi); and northwest toward Lowell (18 mi).

Melrose's last tracked outage began Sep 26, peaked at 1,994 customers out, and was restored in 22 hours. Across the 4 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 4 hours.

• Sep 26 — 1,994 customers out, restored in 22 hours
• Sep 19 — 69 customers out, restored in 5 hours
• Sep 10 — 174 customers out, restored in 2 hours
• Sep 1 — 31 customers out, restored in 2 hours