Power Outage in Hawaii
POWER OUTAGES: Stolen Stuff Hawaii 5:55 PM HST, 8/18/2026 OAHU: 8,230 customers without power across 527 separate outages. BIG ISLAND: 25,038 customers across 565 outages. MAUI COUNTY: 1,675 customers across 113 outages. KAUAI: 81 of 36,341 customers across 45 outages. STATEWIDE: 35,024 customers without power across 1,250 outages, adding each utility's published totals. That is 6,094 fewer than at 11:50 AM. THE FIRST COMPLETION ESTIMATE OF THIS STORM, AND IT COMES IN TWO HALVES. Hawaiian Electric's 4 PM update expects 95% of impacted customers statewide back by FRIDAY. The exception is South Hawaii Island: Puna, North and South Kohala, southern Kau, Naalehu, Punaluu and Kilauea, where they say it could take AT LEAST TWO WEEKS. If you are in those areas, the Friday number is not about you. THE BIG ISLAND IS NOW ABOUT 71% OF EVERYONE STILL OUT, at 25,038. It carries more separate outages than Oahu, 565 to 527, last true at Sunday's peak, and its count fell just 562 all afternoon. That split is the work: big repairs break into small ones, and bringing power back can blow transformers, putting some blocks out again. Damage assessments finished in Puna and Hamakua today. OAHU IS UNDER 10,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME since Lala, at 8,230. Hawaiian Electric restored about 10,000 today in Kaneohe, Kahala, Kahuku, Aiea, Nanakuli and Makiki. MAUI COUNTY IS AT 1,675, with crews on Haiku and Peahi plus pocket outages Upcountry, Kahului, Lahaina and East Maui. HELP ARRIVED TODAY. Mainland utility crews have started landing. CUSTOMERS FROM SALT LAKE TO EAST HONOLULU WHO HAVE POWER ARE ASKED TO CONSERVE TONIGHT: ease off air conditioning, delay laundry and dishes, hold off cooking until later. THESE NUMBERS ARE ONLY AS OF 5:55 PM AND CHANGE CONSTANTLY. In their words, the counts "represent a snapshot in time and change often as additional customers are restored and more outages occur, sometimes in the same area." STILL OUT WHILE YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE BACK? Call it in so crews know. Hawaiian Electric: 1-855-304-1212. KIUC: (808) 246-4300. Treat every downed line as energized and dangerous. 🌀 sshsearch.com/weather #hawaii #poweroutage #oahu #kauai #maui #bigisland