Factbox: Half a million lose power as storms batter US Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South

American Electric Power

17/03/2026 05:07

Updates with latest outages

March 16 (Reuters) - More than 536,000 homes and businesses were without power on Tuesday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

Pennsylvania was the hardest hit, with about 125,000 outages - roughly 1.9% of the state's 6.8 million customers, according to the data.

The most severely impacted utility was a unit of Consumers Energy in Michigan, where around 92,770 homes and businesses were without service.

"Six hundred crews are hard at work and will continue through the night to ensure all communities we serve get back online," Consumers Energy said in a post on X.

Here are the major outages by state:

State
Outages
Pennsylvania
124,999
Michigan
106,712
Virginia
84,301
New Jersey
61,487
Maryland
24,858
New York
19,728
Ohio
16,228
North Carolina
15,064
Total
536,972

 (Reporting by Anjana Anil and Noel John in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernadette Baum, Will Dunham and Sumana Nandy)

 ((Anjana.Anil@thomsonreuters.com;))