When will the power be back in Lackawanna, NY?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Lackawanna is a city of about 19,629 residents in Erie County.
National Grid has reported outages for Lackawanna by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Lackawanna is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
Around Lackawanna: the closest other places we track are Buffalo, about 5 miles to the north; Depew, about 9 miles to the northeast; Lancaster, about 10 miles to the northeast; and Kenmore, about 10 miles to the north. Also nearby: Tonawanda (13 mi N), North Tonawanda (16 mi N), Niagara Falls (21 mi NW), Lockport (25 mi N), Dunkirk (35 mi SW), Batavia (35 mi E), Jamestown (54 mi SW) and Olean (55 mi S).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: east toward Rochester (66 mi); southeast toward Corning (102 mi); south toward St. Marys, PA (95 mi); and southwest toward Erie, PA (80 mi).
Who serves Lackawanna?
We track live outage data from NYSEG and National Grid in Erie County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Village of Springville and Village of Akron also serve parts of Erie County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.
County context: across all of Erie County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 3.5 hr. The full record for Erie County
