When will the power be back in Dauphin County, PA?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Dauphin County, PA right now.

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Elsewhere in Pennsylvania: 197 customers reported out — statewide status.

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Who serves Dauphin County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include PPL Electric Utilities and FirstEnergy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Borough of Middletown and Borough of Royalton 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Dauphin County, PA

Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 279 customers, restored in ~5.7 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 24 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.2 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Dauphin County, PA

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 968 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 5 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2.8 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: ~21,434 customers out in February 2024, restored after about 40 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2018.

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 Dauphin County

Harrisburg

Communities in Dauphin County include Harrisburg, Middletown, Steelton, Hummelstown, Penbrook, Highspire, Millersburg and Lykens. 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 Dauphin County, PA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Dauphin include PPL Electric Utilities, FirstEnergy, Borough of Middletown and others — 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.

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