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Power Outages in Norfolk County, MA

Is there a power outage in Norfolk County, MA right now? None reported. As of October 20, 2026 00:30 UTC, no outages are reported by City of Norwood - (MA), Massachusetts Electric Co, NSTAR Electric Company and Town of Braintree - (MA) in Norfolk County, MA. There is no live feed for Massachusetts Bay Trans Authority and Town of Wellesley - (MA).

Norfolk County, MA is served by 6 tracked utilities. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.1 hours.

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No active outages are reported by City of Norwood - (MA), Massachusetts Electric Co, NSTAR Electric Company and Town of Braintree - (MA) in Norfolk County.

No live feed for Massachusetts Bay Trans Authority and Town of Wellesley - (MA): outages in theirservice area won't show here.

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No outage contact on file for Massachusetts Electric Co, NSTAR Electric Company, City of Norwood - (MA), Town of Braintree - (MA), Massachusetts Bay Trans Authority and Town of Wellesley - (MA); check your electric bill or the utility's website.

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Live status by utility · Norfolk County

0.0%of this county's ~646,684 customers are served by utilities with a county-level live feed.

Blind spots

We can't see outages for: Massachusetts Bay Trans Authority, Town of Wellesley - (MA). Their customers are not in any number on this page; check their own outage maps.

UtilityFeedOutServed% outSmall outagesIncidentsUtility ETRAs of
City of Norwood - (MA)Live · county0---0-
Massachusetts Electric CoLive · county0---0-
NSTAR Electric CompanyLive · county0---0-
Town of Braintree - (MA)Live · county0---0-
Massachusetts Bay Trans AuthorityNo live feedcan't see------
Town of Wellesley - (MA)No live feedcan't see------

City of Norwood - (MA), Massachusetts Electric Co, NSTAR Electric Company and Town of Braintree - (MA) reportevery town in the county on each poll, so 0 out is a real all-clear. ETRs are the utility's own estimates.

Electricity-dependent residents

HHS emPOWER · data October 7, 2026

Medicare beneficiaries in Norfolk Countywho rely on electricity-dependent medical equipment (ventilators, oxygen concentrators, home dialysis, powered wheelchairs, and more). HHS reports counts of 1–10 as “≤11”. Medicare only, so the full at-risk population is larger.

Power-dependent
4,160
Oxygen service
692
Dialysis (facility)
489
Home health / hospice
1,055
By ZIP code (39)
ZIPPower-dependentVentilatorsO2 concentratorsHome dialysis
0216932915207≤11
02184243≤11148≤11
02368216≤11110≤11
02072202≤11132≤11
02026182≤1189≤11
02038157≤1196≤11
02062152≤11900
02188140≤1188≤11
02019136≤11100≤11
02021131≤1176≤11
02190118≤1183≤11
021861140530
02081112≤11580
02446109≤11470
0218998≤1162≤11
0203592≤1152≤11
0217087≤1151≤11
0217185≤1150≤11
0206783≤1138≤11
0234382≤1159≤11
0205380≤1153≤11
0209377≤1137≤11
0249274≤1137≤11
0246764≤1121≤11
0205464≤1132≤11
0209063≤1135≤11
0219156≤11380
0276255≤11340
0205650032≤11
0244549014≤11
02494460230
0248240≤11200
0248136≤1112≤11
0202531≤1115≤11
0232230≤11190
0205230≤11190
0203020≤11≤110
02071≤110≤110
02032≤110≤110

Emergency managers can request identified beneficiary lists through their state health department via the HHS emPOWER program.

🔔 Alerts for Norfolk County, MA

Outage began, grew, restoration estimate changed, restored: by email, Slack, Teams, Discord or signed webhook, for Norfolk County or any town and utility in it.

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◢ ACTIVE WEATHER ALERTS · NWS

No active NWS alerts for Norfolk County right now.

Recent NWS alert activity · Norfolk County

Norfolk County has been under 42 National Weather Service alerts recently, most recently a Frost Advisory on October 7, 2026.

  • High Surf Advisory ×7
  • Flood Warning ×6
  • Wind Advisory ×5
  • High Wind Warning ×5
  • Coastal Flood Warning ×4
  • Flood Watch ×4

Latest Norfolk County, MA outage updates

A running log of how this outage has changed, updated automatically as utilities report in.

  1. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 26m

  2. OUTAGE BEGAN

    Outage began: 1,529 customers out (0.2% of the county)

  3. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 25m

  4. OUTAGE BEGAN

    Outage began: 1,529 customers out (0.2% of the county)

  5. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 7d

  6. IMPROVING

    Improving: down to 381 customers out

  7. IMPROVING

    Improving: down to 642 customers out

  8. GREW

    Outage grew to 4,868 customers out (1.5% of the county)

Outage trend · Norfolk County, MA
0customers out · peak 24
Data as of Oct 20, 2026 00:30 UTC
Norfolk County, MA: customers without power, last 24 hoursPeak 24 customers out; latest 0 as of Oct 20, 2026 00:30 UTC. Each point is the highest reading in its interval.0102030Oct 196 AM12 PM6 PM
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Times in EDT. Shaded stretches had no reading.

Hardest-hit cities in Norfolk County

Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.

  • Quincyno outage reported
  • Weymouth Townno outage reported

Historical reliability

In 2025, the average customer in Norfolk County went about 3.1 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 126,740 customers.

Official state benchmark (EIA 2025)Source: US EIA

The US EIA reports Massachusetts utilities averaged 2.0 hrs without power per customer (SAIDI) in 2025, a cross-check on our county estimate of 3.1 hrs.

A decade of outages (2015–2025)
avg hrs without power / customer
Norfolk County average outage hours per customer by year2015–2025: 2015 1.2h, 2016 3.1h, 2017 2.7h, 2018 11.3h, 2019 1.5h, 2020 6.4h, 2021 8.7h, 2022 1.7h, 2023 5.6h, 2024 1.2h, 2025 3.1h. Highlighted: 2018.0510151.2h20153.1h20162.7h201711.3h20181.5h20196.4h20208.7h20211.7h20225.6h20231.2h20243.1h2025
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Worst year here was 2018 (peak 68,310 customers out) · decade average 4.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.

YearOutage eventsPeak customers outAvg hrs/customer
20158198,0921.2
201689029,8143.1
201794821,3092.7
201887768,31011.3
201984514,7211.5
202086343,4086.4
2021953126,7408.7
20221,01535,4271.7
202393955,1595.6
20249645,5921.2
202582729,0043.1

Cost of power in Norfolk County

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Estimated residential electricity price for Norfolk County, customer-weighted across the utilities serving it (US EIA, 2025). Retail prices aren't published at the county level; this is a derived estimate.

28.1¢/kWh
estimated residential average
▲ 37% since 2015
vs Massachusetts avg 30.5¢
vs US avg 20.0¢
BY UTILITY · RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh

Weighted by each utility's residential customer count (utilities report customers at the state level; a per-county share isn't published). Rising retail prices track a national demand surge; see energy & the data-center boom. What that adds up to each month, by state and utility: average electric bill.

Worst recorded outages
STARTEDPEAK OUTDURATION
October 26, 2021126,7402d 5h
March 2, 201868,3103d 15h
December 17, 202355,1595d 9h
October 7, 202043,4083d 12h
November 30, 202235,4271d 15h
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Natural hazards & outage risk
ELEVATED

Relatively High ice storms exposure · 4.2 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.

Ice stormRelatively High
FloodingRelatively High
HurricaneRelatively Moderate
TornadoRelatively Moderate
Strong windRelatively Moderate
Heat waveRelatively Moderate
EarthquakeRelatively Moderate
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Power outages in Norfolk County: FAQ

How often does Norfolk County, MA lose power?
Based on EAGLE-I records, Norfolk County, MA logged 827 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.1 hours without power per customer over the year.
What was the worst power outage in Norfolk County, MA?
The largest tracked outage peaked at 126,740 customers without power, beginning October 26, 2021 and lasting about 2d 5h.
Is there a power outage in Norfolk County, MA right now?
None reported. As of October 20, 2026 00:30 UTC, no outages are reported by City of Norwood - (MA), Massachusetts Electric Co, NSTAR Electric Company and Town of Braintree - (MA) in Norfolk County, MA. There is no live feed for Massachusetts Bay Trans Authority and Town of Wellesley - (MA).
Which utilities serve Norfolk County, MA?
Tracked electric providers include City of Norwood - (MA), Massachusetts Electric Co, NSTAR Electric Company, Town of Braintree - (MA).
Nearby counties
Bristol CountyMiddlesex CountyPlymouth CountyProvidence County
Cities & towns in Norfolk County

Quincy, Weymouth Town. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Norfolk County level shown above.

ZIP codes in Norfolk County

Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Norfolk County.

02019, 02021, 02025, 02026, 02030, 02032, 02035, 02038, 02052, 02053, 02054, 02056, 02062, 02067, 02071, 02072, 02081, 02090, 02093, 02169, 02170, 02171, 02184, 02186, 02188, 02189, 02190, 02191, 02322, 02343, 02368, 02445, 02446, 02457, 02467, 02481, 02482, 02492, 02494, 02762

Electric providers serving this county

From EIA-861 service territory, with official reliability where reported. Territory is filed by county, so these are the utilities with lines anywhere in Norfolk County, not the one at a given address. All electric companies in Massachusetts →

ProviderOfficial SAIDI (EIA)LiveReport outage
Massachusetts Electric Co2.2 hrsLive · county-
NSTAR Electric Company1.9 hrsLive · county-
City of Norwood - (MA)2.0 hrsLive · county-
Town of Braintree - (MA)1.2 hrsLive · county-
Massachusetts Bay Trans Authority-No live feed-
Town of Wellesley - (MA)-No live feed-

Data from DOE/ORNL ODIN, DOE EAGLE-I, EIA Form 861 (utility reliability), EIA electricity retail prices and FEMA National Risk Index, every source we read. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Massachusetts customers). Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/25021 and /api/v1/counties/25021/history.