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Who serves Berks County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy and PPL Electric Utilities, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Borough of Kutztown also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. 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 — Berks County, PA
Last significant outage: Sep 30, 2026 — peaked at 388 customers, restored in ~3.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 35 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 12.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Berks County, PA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,680 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
15 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
6.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Pennsylvania norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~34,299 customers out in June 2020, restored after about 2.2 days. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Berks County
Communities in Berks County include Reading, Wyomissing, Shillington, Birdsboro, West Reading, Hamburg, Laureldale and Sinking Spring. 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 Berks County, PA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Berks include FirstEnergy, PPL Electric Utilities and Borough of Kutztown — 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.
