Nationwide Outage Situational Awareness for Government

The problem

When a major storm or grid event hits, government and emergency teams must stitch a national picture together from dozens of individual utility sites — each with a different format, refresh rate, and coverage gap. That lag costs time exactly when coordination matters most. Outage Pro delivers one normalized, continuously updated feed of power-outage data across every state, county, and utility we monitor — an objective, third-party view that drops straight into the dashboards and GIS tools teams already use.

Key data points

• Customers out & served at state / county / utility level
• Outage % (auto-calculated)
• Top-5 most-affected states and counties
• State → county → utility drill-down in one response
• County GeoJSON for severity maps
• Last-updated (UTC, ISO 8601)

Key benefits

1. 

   One nationwide picture

   Every monitored state, county, and utility in a single feed; no site-by-site stitching.

2. 

   Objective third-party data

   Neutral, consistent numbers for briefings and public reporting.

3. 

   Fits your stack

   Clean REST/JSON integrates with existing EOC dashboards and GIS tools.

4. 

   Map-ready instantly

   Optional county GeoJSON renders severity maps without sourcing boundaries separately.

5. 

   Push, don't poll

   Webhooks notify your systems the moment outages cross a threshold.

Who it's for

• Federal & State Agencies
• EOC Coordinators
• Public-Safety Analysts

How government and emergency teams use outage data

• Before an event (staging)Watch baseline conditions, brief leadership on the areas likely to be hit, and catch the first outages as soon as they show up.
• During an event (coordination)An EOC needs one number everyone trusts, not five. Outage Pro gives you customers out and customers served at state, county, and utility level, the outage % for each area, and the Top-5 most-affected states and counties ranked automatically, so teams can prioritize crews, shelters, and public messaging.
• After an event (after-action)Every value is timestamped (UTC), which gives you a record you can defend in after-action reviews, mutual-aid accounting, and public reporting. Because the numbers are objective and come from a third party, they hold up in interagency briefings and public communications where a neutral figure matters.

From a national view to county detail

Grid events don't stop at county or state lines, so awareness has to work at every zoom level. You can move from a national view into state and county detail in the same feed, and from a county you can drill into the specific utilities behind its outages. Optional county GeoJSON renders severity maps in your own GIS and EOC dashboards without sourcing boundary files, which makes a FEMA-region or statewide common operating picture much easier to stand up.

Data you can stand behind" and "Built to fit your stack

• Data your agency can stand behind

  Public decisions need data you can cite. Outage Pro coverage is measured against the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) baseline of total US electricity customers, so the coverage figure has a clear, checkable meaning rather than a marketing number. Every value carries a last-updated timestamp, so briefers always know how current the picture is.

• Built to fit your stack

  The API is standard REST/JSON with API-key authentication, so it works with the EOC dashboards, GIS, and analytics tools you already run. Instead of checking utility sites on a timer, you can use webhooks to push an alert the moment outages cross a threshold, so the EOC hears about a change as it happens rather than finding out late.

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