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Who serves Lackawanna County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include PPL Electric Utilities and Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Borough of Blakely and Borough of Olyphant 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 — Lackawanna County, PA
Last significant outage: Sep 27, 2026 — peaked at 300 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 14 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 25, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Lackawanna County, PA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
883 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 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: ~30,955 customers out in July 2024, restored after about 15.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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 Lackawanna County
Communities in Lackawanna County include Scranton, Dunmore, Carbondale, Old Forge, Archbald, Blakely, Taylor and Moosic. 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 Lackawanna County, PA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lackawanna include PPL Electric Utilities, Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative, Borough of Blakely 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.
