Power Outages in Carbon County, PA
No live outage feed is available for Carbon County, PA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.6 hours.
Carbon County, PA is served by local tracked utilities.
Carbon County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Carbon County right now.
Carbon County has been under 47 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on September 1, 2026.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×12
- Flood Watch ×9
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×8
- Heat Advisory ×6
- Air Quality Alert ×5
- Tornado Watch ×3
Hardest-hit cities in Carbon County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Carbon County went about 5.6 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 8,904 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 5,228 customers out) · decade average 5.0 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 428 | 2,290 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 465 | 3,516 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 476 | 2,655 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 513 | 8,904 | 10.2 |
| 2019 | 588 | 6,794 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 570 | 6,815 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 591 | 3,449 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 686 | 5,437 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 627 | 5,440 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 666 | 5,228 | 11.7 |
| 2025 | 739 | 3,177 | 5.6 |
Relatively Moderate high winds exposure · 5.0 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Carbon County: FAQ
- How often does Carbon County, PA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Carbon County, PA logged 739 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.6 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Carbon County, PA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 8,904 customers without power, beginning March 2, 2018 and lasting about 3d 11h.
- Is there a power outage in Carbon County, PA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Carbon County, PA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Carbon County.
18012, 18030, 18071, 18210, 18212, 18216, 18229, 18230, 18232, 18235, 18240, 18244, 18250, 18254, 18255, 18624
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/42025 and /api/v1/counties/42025/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Pennsylvania customers).