Every grid incident in public reporting where a transformer exploded: the fire that followed, the outage and how many were cut off, each with its sources. Free to read.
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On 23 October 2026, a distribution box (transformer box) exploded on Suao New City South Road in Suao, Yilan County, Taiwan, as a typhoon approached the area. According to the report, the incident happened at about 15:50 during strong winds, when the power...
At midday, a transformer at the TEİAŞ substation on the Silvan road in Diyarbakır, Turkey, exploded, and smoke from the blast was seen from many parts of the city. Fire and emergency teams were dispatched and the transformer fire was brought under control and...
A transformer exploded on Dover Terrace in Monsey, New York, causing a power outage for residents in the surrounding area. Monsey Fire Department and Ramapo Police responded to the scene, and Orange & Rockland Utilities also responded. The report was...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A transformer box on a footpath outside Amazon’s office on Baglur Main Road in Bengaluru exploded, injuring two pedestrians. One suffered severe burns to the hands after falling in the blast, and the other sustained minor injuries. A student walking nearby...
Four people suffered severe burn injuries after a high-capacity electricity transformer exploded near a Coca-Cola warehouse in Benniganahalli, Bengaluru, on the afternoon of 6 October 2026. The incident was reported to have occurred between 12.30 pm and 1 pm...
A fire broke out for a reason not yet determined at a transformer on Ata Bulvarı in Işıktepe Mahallesi, Nilüfer, Bursa. Explosions occurred during the fire and nearby people were briefly alarmed. Fire crews brought the fire under control and extinguished it....
On 7 September 2026 a power outage interrupted the National News of Cuban Television. The signal was cut and other content was broadcast for several minutes. Reports from people near the studios said an electrical transformer had exploded in the vicinity. The...
On 26 September 2026, a transformer on a nearby power line exploded and fell onto the rooftop of Mahela Khatun Mohila Madrasa in the Hajipara area of Fatullah, Narayanganj, Bangladesh, while five students were playing there. All five suffered burns and were...
On the night before a report published on 29 September 2026, the apparent failure of a power transformer near South Business Drive and Union Avenue in Sheboygan caused an explosion, according to a local news report. Witness reports said the blast set fire to...
A transformer exploded on 20 September 2026 in the Hemband Khar area of Mohtara village, Bemetara district, Chhattisgarh, India. Hot oil and flames from the transformer spread into a nearby field where three farmers were working. They suffered severe burns,...
One worker was killed and two others injured after a transformer exploded during repair work in Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, on 23 September 2026. Police said several workers, including electricity department contractors and a private contractor,...
A local news headline reported an explosion in a transformer in the centre of Yozgat, Turkey. The report is dated 23 September 2026. It does not say whether anyone was hurt, whether power was lost, or how the incident was dealt with.
A fire broke out inside the Lambert Street 417 electricity substation in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, cutting power to parts of the upper CBD. Firefighters had to force open the substation, reportedly using the jaws of life, before they could tackle heavy...
A technical fault led to an explosion in a medium voltage current transformer and breaker unit at the Chinchwad Extra High Voltage Substation in Chinchwad, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, Maharashtra, operated by Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission, triggering...
Dispatch took a report of an explosion at the Industrial Park substation in Corning, Iowa, United States at 2:18 p.m. on Wednesday. The report was published on 12 August 2026. A witness said a transformer had exploded. The item was headlined as a substation...
Several villages in the Arta region of western Greece lost electricity for several hours after powerful successive explosions occurred in a transformer at the Grammenitsa Extra High Voltage Center, operated by power utility PPC. The explosions, which happened...
A fire broke out around 3 a.m. at a power station in the Tolosa district of La Plata, Buenos Aires province, reportedly causing a transformer operated by distributor Edelap to explode. The blaze had two major fronts, one along Camino General Belgrano and...
On a Thursday evening in Jonesboro, Arkansas, a potential transformer (PT transformer) at a City Water and Light (CWL) electrical substation adjacent to a Chuck E. Cheese near Turtle Creek failed and exploded. The explosion was captured on a Jonesboro Police...
A ground-mounted transformer at Gallagher Place in downtown Bangor, Maine, overheated and caught fire on 3 July 2026, during a heat wave with a heat index near 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The transformer sits on a concrete pad next to Bangor House Apartments, a...
An underground electrical transformer exploded at the corner of Conti and Bourbon Streets in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, during a public holiday weekend, causing flames to erupt through the roadway surface. The explosion knocked out power to...
Counted from the register on 27 October 2026. The 182 entries whose own reporting names this, of 1,077 substation and transformer entries in all. A mention in the reporting, not a finding of fault.
As the register classes each entry, from its sources.
| What happened | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical | 165 | |
| Thermal / fire | 16 | |
| Other | 1 |
Counted from the words of each entry's own reporting: an entry counts under each part it names, and "Not stated" means the public reporting named none. A mention, not a finding of fault.
| Part named | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Transformer | 182 | |
| Cable or overhead line | 24 | |
| Switchgear or breaker | 7 | |
| Substation building or control room | 2 | |
| Reactor or capacitor | 1 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 97 | |
| India | 18 | |
| South Africa | 16 | |
| Canada | 9 | |
| Turkey | 6 | |
| Bangladesh | 3 | |
| Australia | 3 | |
| Nigeria | 3 | |
| Greece | 2 | |
| Russia | 2 | |
| Kuwait | 2 | |
| Ghana | 2 | |
| Ireland | 2 | |
| United Kingdom | 2 | |
| Taiwan | 1 | |
| Cuba | 1 | |
| Argentina | 1 | |
| Bahamas | 1 | |
| Romania | 1 | |
| Iraq | 1 | |
| Venezuela | 1 | |
| Pakistan | 1 | |
| Panama | 1 | |
| Ukraine | 1 | |
| Kenya | 1 | |
| Chile | 1 | |
| Philippines | 1 | |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | |
| Barbados | 1 |
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The register holds 182 transformer explosion entries from public reporting, 2005 to 2026, in 29 countries. 16 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are electrical, other and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are transformer (182), cable or overhead line (24), switchgear or breaker (7). 0 of the 182 entries name no part. The register does not guess a cause; where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
In the reporting the register has found, United States (97), India (18), South Africa (16) have the most entries. 2 are in the United Kingdom. That partly reflects where the assets are built and where the press reports on them.
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Public reporting on transformer explosion incidents often names the site but rarely the make, the model or the cause. The register does not guess them. Where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
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