Power Outage in Hawaii
POWER OUTAGES: Stolen Stuff Hawaii 10:56 AM HST, 8/17/2026 THE STATEWIDE NUMBER HAS BARELY MOVED SINCE DAWN. THAT IS NOT CREWS STANDING STILL. OAHU: 65,554 customers without power across 443 separate outages. BIG ISLAND: 41,099 customers across 395 outages. MAUI COUNTY: 6,773 customers across 218 outages. KAUAI: 300 of 36,344 customers across 76 outages. STATEWIDE: 113,726 customers without power across 1,132 outages, adding the totals each utility published. HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC RESTORED NEARLY 55,000 CUSTOMERS ON OAHU OVERNIGHT, in parts of East Honolulu, Mililani and the Windward side. Our count is flat anyway, and the reason is in their 9 AM update: ground and aerial assessments "have shown Tropical Storm Lala has left major damage to infrastructure in remote areas of Hawaii Island and Maui." As assessment reaches places nobody could get to yesterday, damage that was always there gets added to the count. Big Island and Maui both rose this morning for that reason. WHAT THE WIND DID. Hawaiian Electric reports gusts of 91 mph in Kohala, 89 mph in West Maui and 84 mph in elevated areas of Oahu, toppling trees that took down utility poles and transmission towers. Helicopters and drones are being flown on Oahu and Maui today to reach rugged terrain. WHERE IT IS WORST. Big Island: Puna, North and South Kona, North and South Kohala, Hamakua and South Hilo. Crews repaired three major transmission lines yesterday, which Hawaiian Electric calls one of the first steps in rebuilding the backbone of the grid. Maui County: Kula, Haiku, Olinda and Piiholo, where large downed trees blocked access to the infrastructure itself. CUSTOMERS FROM SALT LAKE TO EAST HONOLULU ARE ASKED TO CONSERVE POWER TODAY. THESE NUMBERS ARE ONLY AS OF 10:56 AM AND CHANGE CONSTANTLY. The maps update every 15 minutes. Check Hawaiian Electric or KIUC directly for current outages. 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. 🌀 sshsearch.com/weather #hawaii #poweroutage #oahu #kauai #maui #bigisland