BC Hydro reports partial restoration after B.C. storm
BC Hydro listed three windstorm outages in parts of Port Hardy as restored on 7 November 2026. Earlier that afternoon, it said fallen trees and downed lines were still affecting restoration in parts of Vancouver Island and the Central Interior. A later dashboard snapshot showed outages across those regions, counting all causes.
Status of this incident
Partial / reduced supply
Last known status: partly restored · BC Hydro listed restoration in parts of Port Hardy on 7 November; a shared completion time remains unverified.
Source moment: Nov 7, 2026, 10:38 p.m. UTC (03:38 p.m. local time)
In 20 seconds
BC Hydro listed three outages in parts of Port Hardy as restored at 15:13 and 15:23 on 7 November.
At 15:52 on 7 November, BC Hydro listed 7,580 affected customers in Vancouver Island North across all causes.
No later province-wide storm-only customer count or shared restoration time has been verified.
What returned in parts of Port Hardy
The three Port Hardy rows show windstorm outages starting at 11:29 on 6 November. BC Hydro lists 1,783, 1,181 and 529 customers in the individual rows. The customer groups may overlap, so the figures cannot be added to give a unique total.
Two separate windstorm rows for Alert Bay and Port McNeill showed restoration at 22:58 on 6 November and 01:33 on 7 November. Prince George separately reported that power returned at Elksentre arena in time for its scheduled 11:15 group on 7 November.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Reported areas
- Parts of Port Hardy; other areas had outages in the afternoon update
- Central Interior, 15:52
- BC Hydro: 136 active outages and 12,693 customers on 7 November, all causes
- Storm snapshot taken on 7 November
- BC Hydro: about 40,000 customers without power at 08:00 Pacific time
- Restoration
- Partial restoration; no shared completion time verified.
Where outages were still listed
At 15:52 on 7 November, the BC Hydro dashboard showed 86 active outages and 7,580 customers in Vancouver Island North, 2 outages and 27 customers in Vancouver Island South, and 136 outages and 12,693 customers in the Central Interior. The dashboard displays Pacific time. These are regional figures across all causes.
At 14:38 Pacific time, BC Hydro said damage from fallen trees and downed lines was still affecting restoration in parts of Vancouver Island and the Central Interior. Earlier posts said crews were assigned to outages affecting 1,846 customers in Nanoose Bay and Lantzville and 1,481 in Daajing Giids on Haida Gwaii. Those posts gave no cause or confirmed restoration.
How the afternoon figures compare
BC Hydro reported about 80,000 customers without power at the 6 November storm peak and about 40,000 at 08:00 Pacific time on 7 November. New outages occurred while crews restored others, so the difference does not measure restorations. The utility named Prince George and nearby communities, Port Hardy, Courtenay and Qualicum among the hardest hit.
A separate 07:42 Central Interior snapshot on 7 November showed 116 active outages and 13,735 customers across all causes. BC Hydro listed 1,669 customers affected near Driftwood and Shelley roads in Prince George and 375 near Nazko Road in Quesnel. It listed separate wind or tree-contact outages in 100 Mile House and Williams Lake, with dated Central Interior rows starting on 6 November.
Earlier coastal reports and what to check
An earlier BC Hydro notice named Bowen, Keats, Texada, Quadra, Denman and Hornby islands and parts of Sechelt and Powell River, warning that some customers would remain without power overnight. CityNews, citing BC Hydro, put the 6 November 13:45 count at about 40,000. School District 72 reported two schools, Georgia Park Elementary and Southgate Middle School, without power at 08:21 that day; schools stayed open.
BC Hydro warned on 7 November that more storms could bring new outages and gave no shared restoration time. For backup planning, see backup essentials and the runtime calculator.