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I have lost power to my exterior outlets. I have gone through the house resetting GFCI outlets in the kitchen, garage and bathrooms with no luck. I also looked and found no GFCI outlets outside. I reset all GFCI breakers on panel with no success. Inspection of the crawl space and found no outlets.

The house was built in 2014 so there should be a reset somewhere. Any suggestions on what to try next?

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    Have you tested the GFCIs to ensure that they're actually functional? I believe that just hitting the Reset button won't help much if the outlet itself isn't actually working. I'm not 100% certain, but I believe that if the GFCI circuitry has failed, it will cause power to the outlet itself and downstream LOAD side outlets to be off as a protective measure. – FreeMan Nov 17 '20 at 19:12
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    Have you also inspected the standard breakers? Maybe it was an overcurrent and not a ground fault. Of course it could also be a bad connection somewhere. – isherwood Nov 17 '20 at 19:13
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    What makes you believe it's a GFCI trip and not any other kind of wiring issue? (e.g. "it happened right after I used my GFCI tester" is a great answer). Do you know which circuit breaker the outside outlets are on? Is anything else on it? – Harper - Reinstate Monica Nov 17 '20 at 19:28
  • Thanks for the input and suggestions. I. purchased a circuit tracer and found the GFCI breaker on the panel. This has 2 white wires and a single black wire coming into it. This also supplies power to the kitchen lights and outlets. When I press the test on the breaker the lights go off and no power to the kitchen outlets. After reset the power is restored except to the exterior outlets. – Troy Bland Nov 18 '20 at 22:06
  • The exterior outlets stopped working when I was building a bunny cage and using my air compressor and miter saw at the same time. – Troy Bland Nov 18 '20 at 22:08

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