When will the power be back in Romulus, MI?

Romulus is a city of about 24,652 residents in Wayne County.

DTE Electric has reported outages for Romulus by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Romulus 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 Romulus:

• 48174

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Around Romulus: the closest other places we track are Wayne, about 4 miles to the north; Taylor, about 5 miles to the east; Inkster, about 5 miles to the northeast; and Westland, about 7 miles to the north. Also nearby: Garden City (7 mi N), Dearborn Heights (8 mi NE), Southgate (8 mi E), Allen Park (8 mi E), Riverview (9 mi E), Lincoln Park (10 mi E), Flat Rock (10 mi SE) and Dearborn (10 mi NE).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Livonia (12 mi); northeast toward Detroit (17 mi); southeast toward Trenton (11 mi); south toward Oregon, OH (40 mi); southwest toward Sylvania, OH (40 mi); west toward Ypsilanti (13 mi); and northwest toward South Lyon (22 mi).

Romulus's last tracked outage began Sep 23, peaked at 156 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.

• Sep 23 — 156 customers out, restored in an hour
• Sep 21 — 124 customers out, restored in an hour
• Sep 18 — 381 customers out, restored in an hour
• Sep 13 — 55 customers out, restored in 6 hours