Mildura power outage: Powercor lists 4,059 customers affected
Powercor lists an unplanned power outage affecting 4,059 customers in Mildura and surrounding communities in its map snapshot displayed as 27 October 2026, 11:44 am. The operator identifies Lilley Drive, Mildura, as the fault location and says crews are attending. Its estimated restoration time is 13:00 on 27 October; completion has not been confirmed.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: confirmed by the source · Powercor lists 4,059 customers affected around Mildura; crews attending, with 13:00 on 27 October an unconfirmed restoration estimate.
Source moment: 27 October 2026 (date only, no time given)
In 20 seconds
The operator lists 4,059 affected customers across Mildura and seven other named communities; this does not establish a whole-city outage.
Powercor says the cause is under investigation and crews are attending at a fault listed on Lilley Drive, Mildura.
The listed 13:00 restoration time on 27 October is an estimate, with no verified completion or exact outage start time.
Where Powercor lists the outage
The affected-area list names Mildura, Merbein, Birdwoodton, Merbein South, Koorlong, Wargan, Cabarita and Merrinee. The 4,059 figure counts customers in that listed incident. It is not a count of people, and the list does not show that every property in each community has lost electricity. No separate total for an individual community is provided.
Lilley Drive, Mildura, is the fault location shown by Powercor. The operator describes the cause as under investigation and the response as crews attending. Those entries establish the reported investigation and attendance status; they do not identify a confirmed cause or establish that repairs have finished.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Listed communities
- Mildura, Merbein, Birdwoodton, Merbein South, Koorlong, Wargan, Cabarita and Merrinee
- Affected customers
- 4,059 customers in Powercor’s 27 October map snapshot
- Fault and response
- Lilley Drive, Mildura; cause under investigation; crews attending
- Estimated restoration
- 13:00 on 27 October 2026, as displayed by Powercor; timezone unstated; completion unconfirmed
A restoration estimate with timing limits
Powercor lists 13:00 on 27 October as estimated restoration. That forecast may change and is not evidence of reconnection. The map display reads 27 October, 11:44 am, but the captured table does not explicitly state its timezone. The displayed times are therefore retained without converting them to an exact UTC observation or restoration deadline.
The exact onset and an operator incident identifier were not present in the table. The map update time cannot be used as the outage start. There is no verified duration or confirmed full-restoration report in this snapshot. A later operator update is needed to establish whether supply has returned to affected customers.
Planning backup for essential devices
The runtime calculator can help estimate how long a battery may support selected essential devices. The internet backup planner provides preparation context, alongside the grid-down essentials guide. These tools cannot determine an address’s supply status or confirm Powercor’s repair schedule.