Every grid incident in public reporting that names a substation or a transformer: fires, explosions, faults and the outages that followed, each with its sources. Free to read.
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A fire broke out at a 20,000-volt electricity substation on rue Azarias-Selle in Bolbec on Monday 12 October 2026, shortly before 7.30pm. Residents reported a strong smell of burning. The fire caused a power cut across the surrounding area, leaving 61 homes...
On a Monday evening in October 2026, a short circuit set fire to electricity wires strung on poles at Dubagga, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Local residents telephoned the substation and asked for supply to be switched off. Electricity workers attended the site,...
In the early hours of 12 October 2026, at about 01:45, a fire broke out at the El Algar electrical substation in Alicante province, Spain. The substation supplies drinking water to several municipalities in the Marina Baixa comarca. The fire damaged the 10 MW...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source. One entry's record is £2.99 on its page.
A fire, described by the distributor as brief and quickly controlled, broke out at the Amaralia substation on Sunday 11 October 2026 and interrupted power to the neighbourhoods of Amaralina, Pituba, Caminho das Árvores and the surrounding area. Videos shared...
A fire broke out at the Amaralina substation in Salvador, Bahia, on the afternoon of Sunday 11 October 2026, according to Jornal Correio. The fire interrupted electricity supply to customers in Amaralina, Pituba, Caminho das Árvores and the surrounding area....
On a Sunday morning in October 2026, a short circuit on a 440 volt electricity supply line caused the wire to catch fire at Maranchi Durga Chowk, within the Hathidah electricity substation area in Patna, Bihar. Smoke and flames from the wire alarmed nearby...
At about 02:15 on Saturday 10 October 2026, a mini substation at Extension 31 in Fleurhof, Roodepoort, was deliberately set on fire. City Power said a preliminary security report found that two individuals unlawfully entered the site and set the unit alight....
On 10 October 2026, at about 14:30 local time, lightning struck the Vinh Thai 6 substation in An Quang hamlet, Dong Son village, Quang Ngai province, Vietnam, and caused a fire. According to the source, the electrical cabinet at the substation was completely...
On Friday 9 October 2026, a substation operator was killed while adding a jumper to a 33 kV line at the Auras power house in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh. The operator suffered severe burns and his body caught fire. Bystanders put out the fire and took him...
According to a local news report, a fire broke out on an electrical transformer outside the Edmond Rostand school in Bergerac, Dordogne, France, on the evening of Thursday 8 October 2026. The report cites Bergerac town hall as saying the fire followed an...
According to a local news report published on 9 October 2026, a vegetation fire broke out at about 18:00 on Thursday 8 October 2026 near the Campo do Carrapato, beside Avenida Alberto Giovanini in the Bethânia district of Ipatinga, Minas Gerais. The report...
On 3 October 2026, a fault in the 66 kV network at the Mácher substation in Tías, Lanzarote, disconnected about 51,700 customers at 5.44am local time, according to Canarian Weekly as reported by The Cool Down. Within four minutes a further failure at the San...
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...
A report published on 1 October 2026 says power outages began in several districts of temporarily occupied Crimea after an overnight explosion at a large power substation in the village of Nizhnegorsk. Settlements in the Krasnogvardeisky and Pervomaisky...
A severe thunderstorm in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, destroyed three towers on the 132kV Karu-Keffi-Akwanga single circuit transmission line on Wednesday 7 October 2026. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said the line tripped on overcurrent relay...
A transformer fire was reported at Pipeline-Salam Junction, Koforidua, on 6 October 2026. The Ghana National Fire Service received the call at 18:46 and a crew arrived at 19:04. Electricity was disconnected before firefighting. The fire was brought under...
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...
On the morning of 6 October 2026, a fire broke out inside a public electricity transformer on Wanjat Street in Alexandria, Egypt, in front of a private hospital in the east of the city. Civil protection crews set a cordon and put the fire out before it...
A high-voltage substation of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand caught fire in Nong Chok district of Bangkok during heavy rain. The operator said transformers erupted in flames at 10.09am, cutting off power to parts of the district. Fire crews...
All 913 grid incidents, with filters
Counted from the register on 12 October 2026. The 866 grid infrastructure entries that name a substation or a transformer, of 913 grid infrastructure entries in all; the rest are power lines and cables.
As the register classes each entry, from its sources.
| What happened | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical | 566 | |
| Thermal / fire | 272 | |
| Other | 23 | |
| Mechanical | 3 | |
| Gas release | 1 | |
| Near-miss | 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 | 442 | |
| Cable or overhead line | 126 | |
| Switchgear or breaker | 49 | |
| Substation building or control room | 13 | |
| Reactor or capacitor | 7 | |
| Not stated | 329 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 353 | |
| South Africa | 122 | |
| United Kingdom | 90 | |
| India | 61 | |
| Canada | 20 | |
| Nigeria | 17 | |
| Australia | 15 | |
| Russia | 12 | |
| Ukraine | 9 | |
| Bangladesh | 9 | |
| Malaysia | 9 | |
| Ghana | 7 | |
| Turkey | 7 | |
| Brazil | 6 | |
| Egypt | 6 | |
| Cuba | 6 | |
| Germany | 6 | |
| France | 5 | |
| Malta | 5 | |
| Taiwan | 4 | |
| New Zealand | 4 | |
| Spain | 3 | |
| Puerto Rico | 3 | |
| Bahamas | 3 | |
| Greece | 3 | |
| Netherlands | 3 | |
| Pakistan | 3 | |
| Kuwait | 3 | |
| Albania | 3 | |
| Philippines | 3 | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | |
| Vietnam | 2 | |
| Thailand | 2 | |
| Ecuador | 2 | |
| Japan | 2 | |
| Colombia | 2 | |
| Kenya | 2 | |
| Argentina | 2 | |
| Uzbekistan | 2 | |
| Mexico | 2 | |
| Ireland | 2 | |
| Libya | 2 | |
| Iraq | 2 | |
| Czech Republic | 2 | |
| Indonesia | 2 | |
| Guam | 2 | |
| Singapore | 2 | |
| South Korea | 1 | |
| Armenia | 1 | |
| Montenegro | 1 | |
| Luxembourg | 1 | |
| Mauritania | 1 | |
| Guernsey | 1 | |
| Romania | 1 | |
| Jordan | 1 | |
| Kosovo | 1 | |
| Venezuela | 1 | |
| Guyana | 1 | |
| Cyprus | 1 | |
| Italy | 1 | |
| Panama | 1 | |
| Cook Islands | 1 | |
| Zambia | 1 | |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | |
| Mozambique | 1 | |
| Qatar | 1 | |
| Iran | 1 | |
| Nepal | 1 | |
| Fiji | 1 | |
| Barbados | 1 | |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | |
| Poland | 1 | |
| Costa Rica | 1 | |
| China | 1 | |
| Tanzania | 1 | |
| Not stated | 3 |
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The register holds 866 substation and transformer entries from public reporting, 2005 to 2026, in 75 countries. 272 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are electrical, other, mechanical and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are transformer (442), cable or overhead line (126), switchgear or breaker (49). 329 of the 866 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 (353), South Africa (122), United Kingdom (90) have the most entries. 90 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 substation and transformer 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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