Power Outage in Hawaii
POWER OUTAGES: Stolen Stuff Hawaii 7:14 AM HST, 8/16/2026 MORE THAN 200,000 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER OAHU: 115,230 customers without power across 398 separate outages. BIG ISLAND: 57,800 customers across 222 outages. MAUI COUNTY: 27,081 customers across 61 outages. KAUAI: 1,348 of 36,344 customers across 23 outages. STATEWIDE: 201,459 customers without power across 704 outages, adding the totals each utility published. IT IS GETTING WORSE, NOT BETTER, EVEN THOUGH THE OUTAGE COUNT FELL. At 6:57 AM there were 825 separate outages affecting 189,060 customers. By 7:14 that was 704 outages affecting 201,459. Fewer, larger outages: 121 were cleared while the number of people in the dark rose by more than 12,000. Oahu accounts for almost all of it, up nearly 14,000 customers. THESE NUMBERS ARE ONLY AS OF 7:14 AM AND CHANGE CONSTANTLY. For current outages check Hawaiian Electric or KIUC directly rather than this post. Report your outage so crews know your location. Hawaiian Electric: 1-855-304-1212. KIUC: (808) 246-4300. Never touch a downed power line and treat every one as live. If you are in danger, call 911. Figures and maps published by Hawaiian Electric (Oahu, Maui County, Big Island) and KIUC (Kauai). The two utilities use different colour scales, so a key for each is included. 🌀 Live storm updates: sshsearch.com/weather #hawaii #poweroutage #oahu #kauai #maui #bigisland