Factbox: Storms knock out power to 500,000 across US Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South

American Electric Power

16/03/2026 12:28

Corrects lead paragraph to Monday, not Friday

March 16 (Reuters) - More than 500,000 homes and businesses were without power on Monday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

Michigan was hardest hit with around 125,000 outages, representing about 2.5% of the state's 5.1 million customers, according to the data.

The most severely impacted utility in Michigan was a unit of Consumers Energy with around 88,273 homes and businesses without service, followed by Alpena Power Company, with around 11,945.

Here are the major outages by state:

STATE
OUTAGES
Michigan
125,236
Ohio
58,212
Georgia
53,526
Alabama
28,716
Mississippi
28,520
Pennsylvania
26,305
Texas
23,906
Kentucky
23,533
TOTAL OUT
535,802

 (Reporting by Anjana Anil in Bengaluru
Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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