Are Power Outages Getting More Common? What the Data Shows

Here are the raw national event counts by year, summed across every county in our dataset:

2014: 17,239 recorded events

2015: 148,724 recorded events

2016: 146,187 recorded events

2017: 156,920 recorded events

2018: 200,456 recorded events

2019: 214,825 recorded events

2020: 228,241 recorded events

2021: 234,639 recorded events

2022: 251,591 recorded events

2023: 242,345 recorded events

2024: 252,541 recorded events

2025: 259,960 recorded events

2014's figure is a partial-year artifact of when EAGLE-I reporting coverage was still ramping up, not a real one-year drop — treat it as incomplete rather than a baseline.

From 2015 onward, recorded event counts trend upward, but this reflects recorded events, not necessarily a one-to-one increase in actual grid failures — reporting coverage and detection methodology can also shift over a 12-year window. We present the raw counts rather than a causal claim; see our methodology page for coverage caveats.