When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Burien, WA?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · King County, Washington
94
customers reported out in King, 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)
Showing county-wide data because we don't have Burien-specific numbers right now — your neighborhood may be restored earlier or later.
🔔 Check back after the next update, or keep me updated — we'll alert you when a dependable restoration estimate is ready.
Updated 9:17 PM PDT.
3333 out, then 9494 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 2.6 days · tap or hover a point to see its number
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⚡ No power in Burien, WA? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
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.

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What we track for Burien

Burien is a city of about 52,046 residents in King County.

None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Burien by name, so this page reports the King County county-wide view, which covers Burien. If a serving utility does name Burien during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.

Around Burien: the closest other places we track are SeaTac, about 3 miles to the southeast; Tukwila, about 3 miles to the east; Des Moines, about 6 miles to the south; and Renton, about 7 miles to the east. Also nearby: Mercer Island (8 mi NE), Kent (8 mi SE), Newcastle (9 mi NE), Seattle (10 mi N), Federal Way (11 mi S), Bellevue (12 mi NE), Auburn (13 mi SE) and Covington (13 mi SE).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Shoreline (19 mi); northeast toward Sammamish (17 mi); east toward Issaquah (15 mi); southeast toward Maple Valley (16 mi); south toward Tacoma (16 mi); southwest toward Gig Harbor (15 mi); west toward Port Orchard (15 mi); and northwest toward Bainbridge Island (14 mi).

Who serves Burien?

We track live outage data from Puget Sound Energy, Seattle City Light and Tacoma Power ↗ in King County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Milton, Tanner Electric Cooperative and PUD No. 1 of Chelan County also serve parts of King County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.

Outage history — King County, WA (covers Burien)
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.

County context: across all of King County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 13.3 hr. The full record for King County

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