48 power cuts since 29 September, 5 of them on Friday 23 October
- 48new cuts since 29 Sept
- 5in one day, 23 Oct
- 28of 45 days with a cut
www.preparedbritain.co.uk/home-report/telfordOfficial feeds, counted daily
Santa is due in Telford at 00:08, just after midnight on Christmas Eve. See his flight plan
Right now: quiet. No unplanned power cuts in Telford at 06:20.
Power cuts
48
new unplanned cuts in the Telford area, on 28 of 45 days
Busiest day: 23 October, during Storms Austen and Boelo. Telford had more cuts a day, for its size, than 57 of the 99 towns we track.
See every day →From our record of every cut National Grid publishes, read every 10 minutes and counted by the day each cut started; last counted Fri 13 Nov, 11:35. These are minimums. One fault can affect many streets, so this is how often cuts happen in the area, not how often one home loses power.
Flood
Fewer than 1 in 100
homes in Telford has some flood risk
226 at high risk
Environment Agency, RoFRS edition v202606.
Weather
No Met Office warnings for West Midlands right now
All warningsMet Office, read Fri 13 Nov, 06:20.
Water
Severn Trent Water
No hosepipe banHosepipe bans as we last confirmed them, 5 Nov 2026.
Break-ins
Burglary rate
42% below averagepolice.uk, year ending March 2026 (police recorded crime).
If a cut at your home ran past 12 hours, you may be owed money. Check a cut
One message when something changes here.
Sources: National Grid live network data, read Fri 13 Nov, 06:20, counted daily by us (last Fri 13 Nov, 11:35). Environment Agency flood risk, RoFRS edition v202606. Met Office warnings, read Fri 13 Nov, 06:20. Water companies and the Environment Agency, for hosepipe bans, confirmed 5 Nov 2026. police.uk recorded crime, year ending March 2026 (police recorded crime). Figures cover the Telford and Wrekin council area, not a single street.
