Federal Reserve Outage History

The Federal Reserve's Fedwire Funds service experienced a brief degraded state starting at Jul 14, 2025 10:42 PM UTC and was restored by Jul 15, 2025 12:37 AM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour and 55 minutes. During this window, Fedwire Funds transactions may have faced delays. The Federal Reserve status page issued two updates about the incident, noting the degradation and subsequent restoration of the Fedwire Funds component.

The Federal Reserve experienced a brief degradation affecting two services components. Account Services entered a degraded state at 12:52 PM UTC, impacting account-related operations. At 1:04 PM UTC the Check 21 component also showed degraded performance, while Account Services recovered to normal. Check 21 remained degraded until 2:17 PM UTC, after which all affected components returned to normal. The incident lasted approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Official status updates documented a progression from degraded to normal across the affected components, with two components involved (Account Services and Check 21). The incident was resolved by 2:17 PM UTC.

Federal Reserve's Fedwire Funds service experienced a brief degradation, moving from normal operation to a degraded state and back within about 57 minutes. The incident began at 10:37 PM UTC and was resolved by 11:34 PM UTC. The Fedwire Funds component transitioned from up to warn and then back to up, indicating a short disruption in processing. The provider issued two status updates during the incident, and the impact was limited to the Fedwire Funds service.

Fedwire Securities, a component of the Federal Reserve's service status, experienced degraded performance beginning at Jun 12, 2025 6:02 PM UTC and ending at Jun 12, 2025 7:48 PM UTC. The incident moved the component from up to warn and back to up, indicating a temporary degradation that could affect users relying on Fedwire Securities services. The Federal Reserve posted two official updates during the incident, and the outage lasted approximately 1 hour 46 minutes.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH component briefly entered a degraded state starting at Jun 3, 2025 3:35 AM UTC and was restored by Jun 3, 2025 3:42 AM UTC, lasting 7 minutes. The FedACH service was the only component affected.

The Federal Reserve status page showed the transition from up to warn and back to up, with two official status updates during the incident. No user reports were recorded for this event.

The Federal Reserve's FedCash service experienced a brief degradation beginning on 2:07 PM UTC. The FedCash component moved from operational to degraded, with users potentially noticing slower performance or intermittent access. The incident lasted approximately 3 hours and 32 minutes and was resolved by 5:39 PM UTC. The issue was communicated via the Federal Reserve status page, with updates describing the degradation and subsequent recovery, returning FedCash to normal.

The Federal Reserve reported a brief degradation for the Services / Account Services, with users potentially experiencing intermittent access to account-related features. The incident appeared as a degraded status on the Federal Reserve's status page, with no indication of a broader system outage.

The issue began at 12:52 AM UTC and was resolved by 2:22 AM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. The status page shows the Services / Account Services component transitioning from up to warn and then back to up, indicating a targeted impact on that component rather than a full service outage.

The Federal Reserve Central Bank component briefly degraded on the status page. The degraded state began at May 27, 2025 9:17 PM UTC and lasted until May 27, 2025 10:27 PM UTC, when the service returned to normal. The incident involved a single component and was resolved after approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. The provider posted two official updates detailing the degraded state and restoration.

The Federal Reserve reported a brief degraded state for the FedCash component beginning on 12:52 PM UTC and returning to normal on 1:42 PM UTC. The incident lasted roughly 50 minutes before FedCash returned to its standard operating condition.

There were no user-reported issues, and the change appears limited to the FedCash service without wider impact to other Federal Reserve services.

The Federal Reserve’s Central Bank component entered a degraded state from Apr 26, 2025 4:57 PM UTC to Apr 27, 2025 6:57 PM UTC, indicating partial disruption to Central Bank services. The incident was documented on the Federal Reserve status page as an up-to-warn transition and later a return to normal, with two official updates posted during the incident. Service returned to full operation by Apr 27, 2025 6:57 PM UTC.