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Who serves Carbon County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include PPL Electric Utilities, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Borough of Lehighton and Borough of Weatherly also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Carbon County, PA
Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 204 customers, restored in ~42 min (no severe weather).
Across the 12 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Carbon County, PA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
505 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Pennsylvania norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~8,904 customers out in March 2018, restored after about 2.7 days.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Carbon County include Palmerton, Lehighton, Jim Thorpe, Lansford, Nesquehoning, Summit Hill, Weatherly and Bowmanstown. 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 Carbon County, PA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Carbon include PPL Electric Utilities, Borough of Lehighton and Borough of Weatherly — 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.
