As of around 7:45 a.m., 12,574 households were still in the dark, the vast majority of them in Western Massachusetts, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
Hampden County reported 8,258 electrical outages, Hampshire County 1,543 and Berkshire County 443, MEMA’s data showed.
Central Massachusetts was hit hard by the storm as well. Worcester County continued to see the second-highest number of households without power for a fourth day in a row Friday, with 2,078 outages reported.
MEMA tracks the number of residents and businesses without electricity using data from the state’s four electrical providers. The agency updates its online map every 15 to 30 minutes.
National Grid, one of the biggest utility companies in Massachusetts, saw the most outages out of the state’s four electricity providers, with 10,458 of its roughly 1.3 million customers reporting they had no electricity Friday.
At the peak of the tropical storm on Tuesday night, nearly 190,000 National Grid customers were without power, according to Christine Milligan, a company spokesperson.
Since Tuesday, more than 1,800 workers have been deployed to help repair damages that have ranged from utility poles that were split in half to entire trees that were toppled, the spokesperson said.
Milligan told MassLive earlier this week that the company expected to have power returned to a majority of its customers by Thursday evening, though she noted some households may not see electricity restored until Friday or Saturday at the latest.
“We’re doing our best,” she said. “It was a very quick storm, but it was a very hard-hitting storm.”
The Hampden County towns of Monson and Palmer were reporting the most power outages in the state Friday morning at 1,391 and 923, respectively.
Springfield, which saw the highest number of households without electricity multiple days in a row, reported 546 outages Friday, a far cry from Tuesday, when more than 10,000 homes and businesses did not have power.
A spokesperson for Eversource, which services Springfield and 219,295 total households in Western Massachusetts, said the utility company is working “nonstop” to get power back to its tens of thousands of customers.
Since Isaias battered Massachusetts on Tuesday, Eversource has replaced 210 broken utility poles, more than 50 miles of power lines and 95 transformers. It has also cleared around 235 blocked roads across the state, according to Priscilla Ress, a company spokesperson.
As of Friday morning, more than 2,000 of Eversource’s more than 1.4 million customers were still without power, according to MEMA.
“In Western Mass., we’ve restored more than 60,700 customers since the storm began,” Ress told MassLive on Thursday. “Eversource crews are working around-the-clock to restore the remaining customer outages caused by Tropical Storm Isaias.”
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