WWE’s giant headquarters flag tore loose and cut power to thousands in Connecticut
When WWE moved into its new Stamford headquarters in 2023, the oversized American flag on its roof doubled as branding. It flew above the building as a local landmark for anyone passing through lower Connecticut. This past weekend that same flag became an expensive liability.
The bigger story is not the Saturday-night failure but what followed it. At around 8:44 p.m. on Saturday June 6, high winds tore the roughly 3,000-square-foot flag from its pole and dropped it onto high-voltage wires near the Stamford train station. That knocked out about 5,000 Eversource customers across Stamford and Greenwich. Crews restored roughly 3,000 of them within twenty minutes and the rest overnight.
The real damage came Sunday. As crews worked to free the flag from a transmission structure carrying two separate circuits, a gust shifted it into an energized line. Eversource told the New York Times the resulting outage hit about 40,000 customers. Greenwich took the worst of it and lost power across nearly the entire town. Road closures followed in Stamford before service was largely restored by Sunday evening and fully back by early Monday.
The flag flew off the WWE building, hit a power line and caught on fire in downtown Stamford tonight (video courtesy Sunny) @News12CT pic.twitter.com/nGjNwVEW0T
Some local coverage, including News 12, described the flag as catching fire on the lines. Stamford Deputy Fire Chief Matt Palmer gave a more measured account. He confirmed arcing when the flag struck the wires but said no fire was visible when crews arrived. The flag was pulled down on Sunday and described as severely damaged.
Through all of it WWE has stayed publicly silent. The company did not respond to the New York Times when asked about the incident. That silence stands out for a promotion that turned the flag into part of its corporate image and a fixture of its Stamford skyline.
No reporting ties any executive to a decision about the flag's
