Power Outage in Hawaii
POWER OUTAGES: Stolen Stuff Hawaii 11:50 AM HST, 8/18/2026 OAHU: 13,282 customers without power across 557 separate outages. BIG ISLAND: 25,600 customers across 519 outages. MAUI COUNTY: 2,126 customers across 131 outages. KAUAI: 110 of 36,341 customers across 46 outages. STATEWIDE: 41,118 customers without power across 1,253 outages, adding the totals each utility published. That is 6,468 fewer than at 8:20 AM. Hawaiian Electric's own 7 AM count was about 57,000, under 15% of customers. THE OUTAGE COUNT WENT UP WHILE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE OUT WENT DOWN, AND THAT IS PROGRESS. One break on a big line puts thousands out as a single outage; as crews fix those, what remains splits into many small outages on side streets. The Big Island shows it: 36 more outages than this morning, 2,147 fewer customers. HALF THE DAMAGED LINES ARE BACK. Hawaiian Electric's 10 AM update says 30 of the 60 transmission and subtransmission lines wrecked by Lala are repaired: 13 of 30 on Oahu, 11 of 21 on the Big Island, 6 of 9 in Maui County. That is what reconnects generation to each island grid. THE BIG ISLAND IS STILL THE LARGEST OUTAGE IN THE STATE at 25,600. Hawaiian Electric restored about 10,750 there overnight, found extensive pole damage on lines serving North and South Kohala, and has tree trimmers clearing vegetation that blocks Upper Puna. MAUI COUNTY IS AT 2,126, after crews restored more than half of what was left overnight. Today: Kula, Alaluana, Olinda, Piiholo, Haiku, plus pocket outages on Molokai and Lanai. ON OAHU, crews are repairing 10 damaged poles in central Oahu and reconnecting Hoohana Solar. CUSTOMERS FROM SALT LAKE TO EAST HONOLULU WHO HAVE POWER ARE ASKED TO CONSERVE IT TODAY. THESE NUMBERS ARE ONLY AS OF 11:50 AM 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." Report your outage so crews know your location. 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