When will the power be back in Des Moines, WA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Des Moines is a city of about 33,207 residents in King County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Des Moines by name, so this page reports the King County county-wide view, which covers Des Moines. If a serving utility does name Des Moines during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
Around Des Moines: the closest other places we track are SeaTac, about 4 miles to the north; Kent, about 5 miles to the east; Federal Way, about 6 miles to the south; and Burien, about 6 miles to the north. Also nearby: Tukwila (6 mi N), Auburn (8 mi SE), Renton (9 mi NE), Covington (10 mi E), Fife (11 mi S), Edgewood (11 mi S), Tacoma (12 mi SW) and Newcastle (12 mi NE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Mercer Island (13 mi); northeast toward Bellevue (16 mi); east toward Maple Valley (13 mi); southeast toward Bonney Lake (16 mi); south toward Sumner (12 mi); southwest toward University Place (16 mi); west toward Gig Harbor (14 mi); and northwest toward Port Orchard (18 mi).
Who serves Des Moines?
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.
Des Moines's last tracked outage began Sep 25, peaked at 1,658 customers out, and was restored in 20 hours. Across the 2 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 16 hours.
- Sep 25 — 1,658 customers out, restored in 20 hours
- Sep 12 — 185 customers out, restored in 11 hours
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
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Des Moines, WA?
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 Des Moines's own record: across the 2 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 16 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
