See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Maryland
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Who serves Montgomery County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Pepco, Potomac Edison and Baltimore Gas & Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Montgomery County, MD
⚡ Power here was restored about 4 hours ago — the outage peaked at 398 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 398 customers, restored in ~9.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 38 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 6, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Montgomery County, MD
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
2,251 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
29 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
4 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~120,582 customers out in November 2022, restored after about 6.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Montgomery County
Communities in Montgomery County include Gaithersburg, Rockville, Takoma Park, Poolesville, Chevy Chase, Kensington, Chevy Chase Village and Somerset. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Montgomery County, MD?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Montgomery include Pepco, Potomac Edison and Baltimore Gas & Electric — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
