Know before the lights go out.

Push alerts, restoration times, and plain-language answers for power outages in PG&E territory. Free, no account, no ads. On the web, iPhone, and Android.

Open the web app Get it on your phone

Watches PG&E's public outage map for the places you save, and tells you the moment one reaches your address.

PG&E outage feed ---- polled every 5 minutes ----> diff against last snapshot
                                                        |
                     outage covers a place you saved ---+---> push to your phone

The app

Your places, at a glance

One shared design on iPhone and Android, built from the outage data itself: what is out, who is fixing it, and when power is expected back.

Adding an area by address or ZIP — Add an area

Home screen with saved areas and a live map — Your areas at a glance

Outages near a saved place on the map — Outages near you

Plain-language explanation of an outage — Plain-language answer

Settings with quiet hours and per-place alerts — Quiet hours and more

Get it

Three ways in, all free

Web

Nothing to install. Check any address or ZIP right now, and browser alerts are available too.

Open the web app

iPhone

A free beta through TestFlight. Install Apple's TestFlight app, then join with one tap.

Join the TestFlight beta

Updates arrive automatically through TestFlight.

Android

A signed APK, straight from GitHub Releases. It updates itself in place.

Download the APK

Android may warn it has not seen this developer before; tap More details, then Install anyway.

The promise

Only four things ever notify you

An outage started at your location
The restoration estimate moved by more than 30 minutes
Power was restored
A PSPS safety shutoff is planned for your area

Quiet hours are respected for everything except PSPS warnings. By default a saved address alerts only when an outage actually covers it, not merely nearby. Nothing else, ever.

Under the hood

Built to be trusted

Plain-language answers

Every outage gets a short, calm "what is going on and when is it coming back", written from the real feed data only. The model may not invent causes or restoration times.

No account, no tracking

No sign-up, no name, no email. Your saved places and an anonymous push token exist only to deliver your alerts. No ads, no analytics.

Open source

The whole thing is MIT-licensed on GitHub: the apps, the backend, and this page. Read exactly what it does with your data.

Honest by design

PG&E's feed gives outages, not grid topology, so OutageWatch never draws circuits it cannot see and never claims more precision than the data has.

Not affiliated with PG&E. Data comes from PG&E's public outage map and can lag behind reality. Do not rely on OutageWatch for safety-critical decisions. For emergencies call 911. Report downed power lines to PG&E at 1-800-743-5000.