District of Columbia power outages
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Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.Outage history in District of Columbia
2014–2025 recordDistrict of Columbia averaged 6.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 3. Half were over within 45 minutes; the longest lasted 45 minutes, starting March 6, 2025.
The largest on record began March 2, 2018, with 76,819 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in July.
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.i
Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| March 2, 2018 | 76,819 | 2 days | 987,821 |
| March 6, 2025 | 31,577 | 45 minutes | 23,153 |
| July 27, 2019 | 31,322 | 12 hours | 139,579 |
| January 3, 2022 | 26,869 | 6.5 hours | 39,264 |
| November 20, 2023 | 26,583 | 15 minutes | 6,646 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
Counties in District of Columbia
Utilities
- Potomac Electric Power Co no live feed