See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Washington
94
customers reported out in King County, WA
2 reported outages · county-wide data
Combined from the live data of the utilities serving this county — the slower nationwide tally shows 95.
Official restoration time (Seattle City Light): Oct 4, 6:11 AM PDT
County-wide restoration outlook: grew sharply just now — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~12 hr start to finish (32 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 8:35 PM PDT.
3394county-wide trend of customers without power · last 2.6 days · tap or hover a point to see its number
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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Puget Sound Energy, Seattle City Light and Tacoma Power ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Tanner Electric Cooperative, City of Milton and PUD No. 1 of Chelan County 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 — King County, WA
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 4,622 customers, restored in ~6.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 16 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 10, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — King County, WA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
2,663 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 118 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~13.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Washington norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~518,386 customers out in November 2024, restored after about 6.5 days. 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 in King County include Seattle, Bellevue, Kent, Renton, Federal Way, Kirkland, Auburn and Redmond. 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 King County, WA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of King include Puget Sound Energy, Seattle City Light, Tanner Electric Cooperative 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.
