When will the power be back in Carlisle, PA?
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Carlisle is a borough of about 22,517 residents in Cumberland County.
PPL Electric Utilities has reported outages for Carlisle by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-29) — so when Carlisle 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 Carlisle:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Carlisle: the closest other places we track are Mechanicsburg, about 10 miles to the east; Harrisburg, about 18 miles to the east; Hanover, about 29 miles to the southeast; and York, about 30 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Chambersburg (30 mi SW); Elizabethtown (32 mi E); Waynesboro (37 mi SW); Columbia (39 mi E); Lebanon (42 mi E); Westminster, MD (44 mi S); Hagerstown, MD (48 mi SW); and Lancaster (49 mi E).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Williamsport (72 mi); northeast toward Pottsville (62 mi); east toward Ephrata (54 mi); southeast toward Bel Air, MD (65 mi); south toward Frederick, MD (54 mi); southwest toward Martinsburg, WV (66 mi); west toward Altoona (67 mi); and northwest toward State College (53 mi).
Who serves Carlisle?
We track live outage data from PPL Electric Utilities and FirstEnergy in Cumberland County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Adams Electric Cooperative also serves parts of Cumberland County — we don't yet read its own live outage map. For the parent company's combined picture, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
County context: across all of Cumberland County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 2.8 hr. The full record for Cumberland County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Carlisle, PA?
To check your own street, search a Carlisle ZIP code — 17013 or 17015 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Carlisle specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Carlisle we have the city-level view: PPL Electric Utilities has published outages for Carlisle under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-07-29. When Carlisle is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Cumberland County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Carlisle.
