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Is Fortnite Down? Current Status and Outages

Epic Games status updated

Current Fortnite status

Fortnite is working normally

IsDown last checked Fortnite status on at . We've received 1572 user reports in the past 24 hours.
Monitoring since Jun 2020 · 126 incidents caught · 79 components tracked in real-time
Fortnite not working for you?

Fortnite service health over the last 24 hours

This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for Fortnite service health over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem.

Outage Map

Epic Games outage map showing where users report when Epic Games is down

See where users report Fortnite is down. The map shows recent Fortnite outages from around the world.

Top locations, last 24h:

  • United States
  • Canada
Fortnite Outage Map

Recent Fortnite outage reports

See what users report when Fortnite is down and how Fortnite outages affect them.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Nick - Multiple crashes to Home screen on Xbox Series X after latest update..

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Error connecting to epic server.

  • 🇳🇴 Norway

    the loading screen is on an then it just dissepears of my pc every time i try to play after the new season.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    One of my two switches i get a red screen with the word. ERROR ————————————— An error occurred while connecting to Epic server. Please try again later..

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Price - When the loading screen appears to begin the game, the game closes about 5-10 seconds later.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Fortnite can't connect to epic servers.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Click to start the game/app on ps5 and it immediately closes and does not run/start the game. Very frustrating..

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    every time I open Fortnite it closes immediately.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Install update failed on pc.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Luka - Everytime I try to start it up it always crashes on the launcher.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    i am in nj usa and this problem is still goign on where fortnite is not turnign on as it says there are some compatibility issuses and will be back on soon its has been 5 hours and it is not on yet.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Gave me a 4 minute queue time just to then say servers not responding.

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    Nic - Launcher says "server offline".

  • 🇦🇺 Australia

    Karlee - watched the event this morning. fortnite updated. now server is down..

  • 🇺🇸 United States of America

    epic is saying servers down on my pc.

Early detection is everything

User reports often detect issues before official status pages acknowledge them. Learn how crowdsourced monitoring combined with official status pages provides faster outage detection than relying on either approach alone.

Epic Games Downtime Health — Last 90 Days

In the last 90 days, Epic Games had 14 incidents (6 major outages and 8 minor incidents) with a median duration of 1 hour 3 minutes.

Total
14

Incidents

Critical
6

Major Outages

Warning
8

Minor Incidents

Duration
1 hour

Median Resolution

Recent Fortnite outages detected

Full incident reports for recent Fortnite outages, including timelines, affected components, and resolution details.

about 9 hours
Users report possible problems with Epic Games (Fortnite)
Jun 05, 2026 at 06:26 PM
Never acknowledged
about 1 hour
Jun 02, 2026 at 05:01 PM
35 minutes
May 30, 2026 at 09:23 AM
Detected 9 minutes before
about 2 hours
May 14, 2026 at 11:22 AM
about 1 hour
May 14, 2026 at 07:45 AM
about 1 hour
May 07, 2026 at 08:33 PM
Detected 30 minutes before
about 2 hours
Apr 17, 2026 at 03:04 PM
Detected 2 minutes before
33 minutes
Apr 01, 2026 at 01:53 AM
Detected 16 minutes before
33 minutes
Mar 30, 2026 at 04:43 AM
about 7 hours
Mar 21, 2026 at 11:27 AM

Fortnite Components Status

Check if any Fortnite component is down. View the current status of 10 services and regions.

Component Status
Fortnite Crew OK
Game Services OK
Houseparty video chat OK
Item Shop OK
Login OK
Matchmaking OK
Parties, Friends, and Messaging OK
Stats and Leaderboards OK
Voice Chat OK
Website OK

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Fortnite down today?

Fortnite isn't down. You can check Fortnite status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Fortnite official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 1 outages reported.

What is the current Fortnite status?

Fortnite is currently operational. You can check Fortnite status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.

Is there a Fortnite outage now?

No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

Is Fortnite down today or just slow?

Currently there's no report of Fortnite being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

How are Fortnite outages detected?

IsDown monitors the Fortnite official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.

Is Fortnite having an outage right now?

Fortnite last outage was on June 02, 2026 with the title "Fortnite Matchmaking Issue"

How often does Fortnite go down?

IsDown has tracked 105 Fortnite incidents since June 2020. When Fortnite goes down, incidents typically resolve within 96 minutes.

Is Fortnite down for everyone or just me?

Check the Fortnite status at the top of this page. IsDown combines official status page data with user reports to show whether Fortnite is down for everyone or if the issue is on your end.

How to check if Epic Games is down?

  • Subscribe (if possible) to updates on the official status page.
  • IsDown continuously monitors the Epic Games status page and multiple sources to provide up-to-date information. Check back with us for the latest Epic Games uptime status.

Why use IsDown to monitor Epic Games instead of the official status page?

Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor Epic Games and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.

How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring Epic Games?

IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if Epic Games is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about Epic Games's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.

Reports by users in other services in the last 12 hours