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Power Outages in Berks County, PA

As of October 19, 2026 04:35 UTC, no outages are reported by FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co in Berks County, PA. There is no live feed for Borough of Kutztown - (PA) and Metropolitan Edison Co. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 7.2 hours.

Berks County, PA is served by 4 tracked utilities.

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No active outages are reported by FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co in Berks County.

No live feed for Borough of Kutztown - (PA) and Metropolitan Edison Co: outages in theirservice area won't show here.

Live status by utility · Berks County

79%of this county's ~188,696 customers are served by utilities with a county-level live feed.

Blind spots

We can't see outages for: Borough of Kutztown - (PA), Metropolitan Edison Co. Their customers are not in any number on this page; check their own outage maps.

UtilityFeedOutServed% outSmall outagesIncidentsUtility ETRAs of
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric CoLive · county0148,5600.0%-0-
PPL Electric Utilities CorpLive · countyno county report------
Borough of Kutztown - (PA)No live feedcan't see------
Metropolitan Edison CoNo live feedcan't see------

FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co reportsevery town in the county on each poll, so 0 out is a real all-clear. ETRs are the utility's own estimates.

Municipalities in Berks County

Town-by-town counts as reported by FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co, most affected first. A town served by more than one utility appears once per utility; utilities without a town-level feed aren't included. Updated .

TownUtilityOutServed% outUtility ETRSmall outages
No outages reported in any town by FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co.
Show 66 towns with no outages
ALBANY TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co08280.0%--
ALSACE TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,8010.0%--
AMITY TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co05,1130.0%--
BALLY BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co06960.0%--
BECHTELSVILLE BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co04030.0%--
BERN TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,6040.0%--
BERNVILLE BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co05000.0%--
BETHEL TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,9080.0%--
BIRDSBORO BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,4570.0%--
BOYERTOWN BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,3430.0%--
BRECKNOCK TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,9470.0%--
CENTERPORT BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02020.0%--
CENTRE TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,8250.0%--
COLEBROOKDALE TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,2890.0%--
CUMRU TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co05,0200.0%--
DISTRICT TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co07160.0%--
DOUGLASS TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,8820.0%--
EARL TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,4720.0%--
EXETER TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co010,6320.0%--
FLEETWOOD BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,0050.0%--
GREENWICH TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,5990.0%--
HAMBURG BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,6110.0%--
HEREFORD TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,2360.0%--
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co09060.0%--
KENHORST BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,3920.0%--
KUTZTOWN BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01300.0%--
LAURELDALE BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,8530.0%--
LEESPORT BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co09950.0%--
LENHARTSVILLE BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01460.0%--
LONGSWAMP TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,1400.0%--
LOWER ALSACE TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,1630.0%--
LYONS BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02680.0%--
MAIDENCREEK TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co03,7500.0%--
MARION TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co08600.0%--
MAXATAWNY TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,9380.0%--
MOHNTON BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,5400.0%--
MOUNT PENN BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,5220.0%--
MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co09,7890.0%--
NORTH HEIDELBERG TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co05940.0%--
OLEY TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,0020.0%--
ONTELAUNEE TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,4820.0%--
PENN TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co09720.0%--
PERRY TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,2400.0%--
PIKE TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co07490.0%--
READING CITYFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co035,5780.0%--
RICHMOND TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,7360.0%--
ROBESON TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co03,2890.0%--
ROCKLAND TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,5820.0%--
RUSCOMBMANOR TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,7830.0%--
SHILLINGTON BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02500.0%--
SHOEMAKERSVILLE BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co07690.0%--
SINKING SPRING BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co0120.0%--
SPRING TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02320.0%--
ST LAWRENCE BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co09040.0%--
STRAUSSTOWN BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01830.0%--
TILDEN TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,5540.0%--
TOPTON BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co09860.0%--
TULPEHOCKEN TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,4180.0%--
UNION TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,5860.0%--
UPPER BERN TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co08700.0%--
UPPER TULPEHOCKEN TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co07120.0%--
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,0230.0%--
WEST READING BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co02,1290.0%--
WINDSOR TOWNSHIPFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,1540.0%--
WOMELSDORF BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co0810.0%--
WYOMISSING BOROUGHFirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co01,2090.0%--

Active outages in Berks County0

No individual outages are listed by utilities with an outage-level feed right now.

Electricity-dependent residents

HHS emPOWER · data October 7, 2026

Medicare beneficiaries in Berks 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
3,902
Oxygen service
1,256
Dialysis (facility)
520
Home health / hospice
889
By ZIP code (43)
ZIPPower-dependentVentilatorsO2 concentratorsHome dialysis
19606283≤11183≤11
19601278≤11172≤11
19605227≤11159≤11
19607226≤11152≤11
19604172≤11105≤11
19518170≤11113≤11
19608165≤11115≤11
19508161≤111200
19602154≤11101≤11
19610153≤1197≤11
19522131≤1185≤11
19512130≤1183≤11
19526127≤1194≤11
19530102≤11660
19540101≤11730
1956080065≤11
1956579≤11600
1961178≤1158≤11
1960966≤1147≤11
1951064≤1146≤11
1953356043≤11
1956753≤1141≤11
1955547≤1134≤11
1954347≤1134≤11
1950645≤11310
1954744032≤11
1950443033≤11
1950542≤11280
1954140≤11280
19539400300
18011370240
1955135≤1126≤11
1950722≤11200
19529210130
19562200130
17087160140
19534150≤110
19559≤110≤110
19554≤110≤110
19550≤110≤110
19503≤110≤110
18070≤110≤110
18056≤110≤110

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

🔔 Alerts for Berks County, PA

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

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◢ ACTIVE WEATHER ALERTS · NWS
  • Frost AdvisoryMINOR
Recent NWS alert activity · Berks County

Berks County has been under 21 National Weather Service alerts recently, most recently a Frost Advisory on October 19, 2026.

  • Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×7
  • Wind Advisory ×6
  • Freeze Warning ×3
  • Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×2
  • Freeze Watch ×1
  • Frost Advisory ×1

Latest Berks County, PA outage updates

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

  1. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 1h 4m

  2. RESTORATION ETA

    Restoration now estimated October 15, 2026

  3. RESTORATION ETA

    Restoration now estimated October 15, 2026

  4. OUTAGE BEGAN

    Outage began: 1,559 customers out (0.8% of the county)

  5. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 20m

  6. OUTAGE BEGAN

    Outage began: 563 customers out (0.3% of the county)

  7. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 6h 3m

  8. RESTORATION ETA

    Restoration now estimated October 14, 2026

Outage trend · Berks County, PA
1customers out
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 04:31 UTC
Berks County, PA: customers without power, last 24 hoursPeak 1 customers out; latest 1 as of Oct 19, 2026 04:31 UTC. Each point is the highest reading in its interval.00.30.50.816 AM12 PM6 PMOct 19
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Times in EDT. Shaded stretches had no reading.

Historical reliability

In 2025, the average customer in Berks County went about 7.2 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 34,299 customers.

Official state benchmark (EIA 2025)Source: US EIA

The US EIA reports Pennsylvania utilities averaged 6.9 hrs without power per customer (SAIDI) in 2025, a cross-check on our county estimate of 7.2 hrs.

A decade of outages (2015–2025)
avg hrs without power / customer
Berks County average outage hours per customer by year2015–2025: 2015 2.5h, 2016 2.5h, 2017 3.1h, 2018 4.1h, 2019 3.4h, 2020 8.5h, 2021 4.6h, 2022 4.4h, 2023 5.3h, 2024 5.9h, 2025 7.2h. Highlighted: 2020.02.557.5102.5h20152.5h20163.1h20174.1h20183.4h20198.5h20204.6h20214.4h20225.3h20235.9h20247.2h2025
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Worst year here was 2020 (peak 34,299 customers out) · decade average 4.7 hrs without power per customer/yr.

YearOutage eventsPeak customers outAvg hrs/customer
201572716,4912.5
20167266,8772.5
201770014,0163.1
20186499,6304.1
20196967,7473.4
202067534,2998.5
202164213,8754.6
20225608,5774.4
202360115,5325.3
202446814,5565.9
202551116,4767.2

Cost of power in Berks County

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Estimated residential electricity price for Berks 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.

18.7¢/kWh
estimated residential average
▲ 34% since 2015
vs Pennsylvania avg 21.7¢
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.

Worst recorded outages
STARTEDPEAK OUTDURATION
June 3, 202034,2994d 20h
August 4, 202026,1097d 22h
June 12, 201516,4913d 10h
April 15, 202516,4763d 11h
April 22, 202315,5322d 14h
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Natural hazards & outage risk
HIGH

Very High winter weather exposure · 4.7 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.

TornadoRelatively High
Strong windRelatively High
FloodingRelatively High
HurricaneRelatively Moderate
Ice stormRelatively Moderate
Heat waveRelatively Moderate
EarthquakeRelatively Moderate

FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively moderate: outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.

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Power outages in Berks County: FAQ

How often does Berks County, PA lose power?
Based on EAGLE-I records, Berks County, PA logged 511 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 7.2 hours without power per customer over the year.
What was the worst power outage in Berks County, PA?
The largest tracked outage peaked at 34,299 customers without power, beginning June 3, 2020 and lasting about 4d 20h.
Is there a power outage in Berks County, PA right now?
No major outage is currently reported for Berks County, PA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Which utilities serve Berks County, PA?
Tracked electric providers include FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co, Metropolitan Edison Co, PPL Electric Utilities Corp.
Nearby counties
Chester CountyLancaster CountyLebanon CountyLehigh County
Cities & towns in Berks County

Reading. Town-level outage counts are in the municipalities table above.

ZIP codes in Berks County

Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Berks County (showing 40 of 51).

17087, 18011, 18056, 19503, 19504, 19505, 19506, 19507, 19508, 19510, 19511, 19512, 19516, 19518, 19522, 19523, 19526, 19529, 19530, 19533, 19534, 19535, 19536, 19538, 19539, 19540, 19541, 19543, 19544, 19545, 19547, 19550, 19551, 19554, 19555, 19559, 19560, 19562, 19564, 19565

Electric providers serving this county

From EIA-861 service territory, with official reliability where reported.

ProviderOfficial SAIDI (EIA)LiveReport outage
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co10.8 hrsLive · county
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PPL Electric Utilities Corp3.3 hrsLive · county-
Metropolitan Edison Co-No live feed-
Borough of Kutztown - (PA)-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 Pennsylvania customers). Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/42011 and /api/v1/counties/42011/history.