Thousands still without power after Thursday night thunderstorm

Jul 4, 2025

ROCHESTER — After a thunderstorm that came through the Tri-town shortly before 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 3 caused outages across the area, over 2,000 Rochester residents are still without power.

According to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency’s outage map, all of Rochester lost power Thursday night.

As of 12:05 p.m., 2,175 Eversource customers are out of power, with 14 outages reported, according to the Eversource outage map.

The largest outage is on Burgess Avenue, with over 1,000 customers without power. The outage was reported at 7:55 p.m. Thursday night and was reportedly caused by fallen tree limbs. Power is estimated to be restored around 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 4.

768 customers are without power along New Bedford Road with no estimated restoration time reported.

As of 7:51 p.m., nearly 400 customers are without power near Snipatuit Road. The outage was caused by tree limbs and Eversource is currently evaluating the outage with no time of restoration noted on the Eversource website.

The Rochester highway, police, fire and facilities departments have been working since the storm to clear roads, remove debris and ensure public safety, according to the Town of Rochester Facebook page.