When will the power be back in Madison, WI?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Madison is a city of about 285,300 residents in Dane County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Madison by name, so this page reports the Dane County county-wide view, which covers Madison. If a serving utility does name Madison during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
ZIP codes in Madison:
+ 23 more ZIP codes in Madison
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Madison: the closest other places we track are Janesville, about 33 miles to the southeast; Monroe, about 35 miles to the south; Oconomowoc, about 45 miles to the east; and Roscoe, IL, about 49 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Hartland (53 mi E); Hartford (54 mi E); Loves Park, IL (55 mi S); Freeport, IL (56 mi S); Waukesha (58 mi E); Pewaukee (58 mi E); Sussex (59 mi E); and Rockford, IL (59 mi S).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: east toward Brookfield (64 mi); southeast toward Burlington (63 mi); and south toward Dixon, IL (86 mi).
Who serves Madison?
We track live outage data from Alliant Energy, Madison Gas & Electric ↗, Wisconsin Electric Cooperatives ↗, Adams-Columbia Electric Cooperative and 1 more in Dane County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Sun Prairie Utilities, City of Stoughton, Village of Waunakee and 3 others also serve parts of Dane County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.
Madison's last tracked outage began Oct 9, peaked at 65 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.
- Oct 9 — 65 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Oct 8 — 144 customers out, restored in 50 minutes
- Oct 7 — 128 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Oct 6 — 827 customers out, restored in an hour
County context: across all of Dane County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 2.3 hr. The full record for Dane County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Madison, WI?
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 Madison's own record: across the 6 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Madison, WI?
To check your own street, search a Madison ZIP code — 53701, 53702, 53703, 53704, 53705, 53706 or any of the other 29 — and the map opens on that area.
