Federal Reserve Outage History

FedACH experienced degraded service beginning at Mar 3, 2026 9:02 PM UTC, with the FedACH component moving from up to warn. Users reported ACH deposits not posting or arriving late during the incident. The issue persisted for approximately 4 hours and 55 minutes, remaining in the degraded state until it was restored to full operation at Mar 4, 2026 1:57 AM UTC. The Federal Reserve's status page issued two official updates explaining the degraded condition and the subsequent restoration. During the incident, user reports indicated ACH processing delays from multiple locations across the United States.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH service entered a degraded state on Mar 3, 2026 3:02 AM UTC and escalated to a full outage later in the day from 3:47 PM UTC to 6:43 PM UTC. As a result, payroll deposits, merchant settlements, and other ACH transfers faced delays or were not posted, affecting users across the United States. The outage lasted about 2 hours and 56 minutes.

The Federal Reserve's Fedwire Funds service experienced a brief degradation, moving from normal operation to a degraded state at Feb 20, 2026 11:32 PM UTC and returning to normal by Feb 21, 2026 12:17 AM UTC. The outage lasted approximately 45 minutes and affected payments processing within Fedwire Funds. The Federal Reserve posted two official status updates during the incident, indicating a temporary disruption and subsequent recovery.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH service briefly degraded on 4:32 AM UTC to 4:52 AM UTC, lasting about 20 minutes. The FedACH component moved from up to degraded and back to up, with two official status transitions recorded on the Federal Reserve status page. There were no user reports captured during the incident, suggesting the impact was limited to participants monitoring FedACH and the issue was resolved quickly.

From Feb 10, 2026 2:07 AM UTC to Feb 10, 2026 2:42 AM UTC, the Federal Reserve's Account Services experienced a brief degradation, with the Services / Account Services component moving from normal to degraded and back to normal. The incident lasted 35 minutes and the status page published 2 updates during the incident, noting issues with the Account Services component. The impact was limited to account-related functionality and did not appear to affect other Federal Reserve services.

The Federal Reserve's FedCash component experienced a brief degraded period beginning at 12:17 AM UTC and ending at 3:17 AM UTC. The FedCash service returned to normal after the incident, with the status page index showing an up → warn transition and then a warn → up transition. The Federal Reserve issued two official status updates during the event. For users, FedCash-related operations may have faced brief delays or limited functionality during the window; the outage lasted about 3 hours before full restoration.

The Federal Reserve’s FedACH service briefly degraded, with the FedACH component transitioning from up to warn. The degradation began at 2:57 PM UTC and was resolved by 4:22 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 25 minutes. The Federal Reserve posted two official status updates during the incident, describing the degraded performance and subsequent recovery. Normal FedACH operations resumed after the incident.

The Federal Reserve status page reported a brief degradation affecting the Services / Check 21 component. The issue began at 2:42 PM UTC and was resolved by 3:12 PM UTC, lasting about 30 minutes. The provider posted two status updates during the incident, documenting the temporary degraded state before service was restored. Impact was limited to the Services / Check 21 component; no other parts of the Federal Reserve platform were listed as affected.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH component briefly experienced degraded performance, affecting the FedACH service. The incident began on Jan 3, 2026 4:27 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 3, 2026 5:12 AM UTC, lasting about 45 minutes. During the event, the FedACH component moved from up to warn on the status page, and the provider issued two status updates before restoration.

The Federal Reserve experienced a brief degraded performance affecting the Services / Check 21 component. The issue began at 8:07 PM UTC and was resolved by 8:32 PM UTC, for a total duration of 25 minutes. The Federal Reserve's status page cited a degradation of Check 21 with a quick recovery, and it issued two status updates during the incident, after which the component returned to normal.