When will the power be back in Wilkes-Barre, PA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Wilkes-Barre is a city of about 44,661 residents in Luzerne County.
PPL Electric Utilities has reported outages for Wilkes-Barre by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-21) — so when Wilkes-Barre is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
Around Wilkes-Barre: the closest other places we track are Kingston, about 1 miles to the northwest; Nanticoke, about 7 miles to the southwest; Scranton, about 15 miles to the northeast; and Dunmore, about 18 miles to the northeast. Also nearby: Hazleton (21 mi S), Berwick (23 mi SW), Bloomsburg (35 mi SW), Pottsville (43 mi SW), Northampton (44 mi SE), Allentown (50 mi SE), Bethlehem (50 mi SE) and Easton (52 mi SE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Binghamton, NY (59 mi); east toward Hopatcong, NJ (67 mi); southeast toward Phillipsburg, NJ (53 mi); south toward Emmaus (53 mi); southwest toward Lebanon (69 mi); west toward Williamsport (60 mi); and northwest toward Elmira, NY (76 mi).
Who serves Wilkes-Barre?
We track live outage data from PPL Electric Utilities and Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative in Luzerne County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. UGI Utilities also serves parts of Luzerne County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
Wilkes-Barre's last tracked outage began Sep 24, peaked at 48 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 5 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours.
- Sep 24 — 48 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 21 — 64 customers out, restored in 6 hours
- Sep 10 — 26 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 9 — 44 customers out, restored in 50 minutes
County context: across all of Luzerne County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 3.5 hr. The full record for Luzerne County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Wilkes-Barre, PA?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from Wilkes-Barre's own record: across the 5 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
Does this page show Wilkes-Barre specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Wilkes-Barre we have the city-level view: PPL Electric Utilities has published outages for Wilkes-Barre under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-08-21. When Wilkes-Barre is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Luzerne County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Wilkes-Barre.
