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Who serves Northumberland 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 Watsontown also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Northumberland County, PA
Last significant outage: Sep 22, 2026 — peaked at 204 customers, restored in ~7.8 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 11 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 7, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Northumberland County, PA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
563 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is shorter than the Pennsylvania norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~18,268 customers out in February 2024, restored after about 46.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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 Northumberland County include Sunbury, Shamokin, Milton, Mount Carmel, Kulpmont, Watsontown, Riverside and Turbotville. 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 Northumberland County, PA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Northumberland include PPL Electric Utilities and Borough of Watsontown — 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.
