Thousands in Pierce County are without power due to widespread outages

Thousands of Pierce County residents are without power from Peninsula Light Co. and Puget Sound Energy outages.

Peninsula Light customers can attribute their lack of power Saturday morning due to a fallen tree on transmission lines, according to Tacoma Public Utilities senior communications manager Erin Babbo.

“Tacoma Power crews have restored power to all transmission lines. Peninsula Light is working to restore power to customers,” Tacoma Public Utilities shared in an update on X at 11:17 a.m.

Over 4,000 customers are impacted by 69 outages, according to the site’s outage map as of 11:29 a.m.

As of 9:55 am today, some substations have come back on, Peninsula Light posted.

Puget Sound Energy faces 36 outages affecting over 4,000 customers, according to its outage map as of 10:53 a.m. About 680 of those are in Roy and 220 in Michigan Hill. The cause is still being investigated in both.

In Auburn, 42 customers lost power due to vegetation impacting a power site. Repair crews are onsite and power is estimated to be restored by 1 p.m. today.

Updates will be posted here.

This story was originally published November 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM.