Sources
Sources and licences
Power Out Map uses only primary public sources. Each is free to reuse; the terms and required credit are below.
| Source | Used for | Licence and credit |
|---|---|---|
| EAGLE-I recorded electricity outages, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Customers out by county every 15 minutes, 2015–2025; customer counts | CC BY 4.0. Brelsford, Christa; Tennille, Sarah; Myers, Aaron; Chinthavali, Supriya; Tansakul, Varisara; Denman, Matthew; et al. (2023). The Environment for Analysis of Geo-Located Energy Information’s Recorded Electricity Outages 2014-2025. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24237376.v4 |
| Form EIA-861, U.S. Energy Information Administration | Utility territories, reliability (SAIDI, SAIFI), residential sales and prices | Public domain. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 annual files (2018–2025). |
| Storm Events Database, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Storm reports matched to outages | Public domain (U.S. Government work). |
| HURDAT2 best tracks, NOAA National Hurricane Center | Naming tropical cyclones | Public domain. |
| NWS zone–county correlation file | Mapping zone-based storm reports to counties | Public domain. |
| ODIN, Outage Data Initiative Nationwide, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Live outages by county from participating utilities | U.S. Government data, published openly by ORNL. Credit: DOE / ORNL ODIN. |
| Utilities' public outage maps | Live customers out and served, by county where the map gives it | Each utility's published figures; linked from the live tables. How they are read: live data sources. |
| National Weather Service alerts (api.weather.gov) | Warnings in effect during live outages | Public domain. |
| U.S. Census Bureau: cartographic boundaries (2021, 2023), 2020 centres of population | County and state outlines; the lights on every map | Public domain. |
Endorsement
No agency or laboratory endorses this site or the analyses on it. Figures are derived from the sources above after cleaning described in the methodology.
Data vintage
This build was made on 2026-11-03 from EAGLE-I version 4 (published 2026-02-25).