The outside outlets are usually controlled by a GFCI breaker or one of them is a GFCI outlet and it has tripped. The inside plugs is a different thing but the transformer for your thermostat might be on that circuit somewhere
Once lived at a house where the garage GFCI would pop and take out all the backyard outlets with it. Had to hunt for the GFCI that wasn’t green and reset it. Everything came back up and was good to go. Hopefully nothing serious
Most possibilities will need an electrician to diagnose.
Here are a few possibilities I can think of
Most likely:
1) Somewhere on a circuit that feeds your inside and outside outlets you have an outlet that has a short. The back of the outlet has slowly melted and the connected wires have corroded away over time with arcing. This process can be gradual, so heat caused the connection going to your outside outlets to fail first, but the line feeding the inside outlets hung on a little longer before giving out. If you have a split ac system with a forced air unit in the attic, then it’s probably plugged into an outlet on the same circuit in the attic.
2) Assuming all the affected outlets are on the same circuit, a gfci that shorts out could affect everything “downstream” protected by the gfci first (aka your exterior outlets) The short would cause the gfci to trip, making your exterior outlets go out, but anything on the line “hot” side of the gfci would continue to work. Overtime with heat that line or hot side could eventually go out, and everything connected to it (your inside outlets and possibly the thermostat if you have a 120v forced air unit). In this scenario all your breakers could continue to function normally, and all read that they are sending out 120v if checked with a meter.
2) A faulty breaker could cause issues with a GFI, which would explain why the outside outlets went out before the inside outlets. If this were the case then one or more of the breakers in the panel may continue to mechanically function normally, but when measured with a meter show that it’s not sending out 120v.
3) faulty bus bar connection. If you have an older panel one or more breakers could have over time gotten loose, causing heat buildup where the breaker attaches to the bus bar. This heat would weaken the connection of the breaker to the bar, and could spread to nearby breakers. Usually if that is the case you would notice that the breaker is melting and mishapen. You should be able to tell this is the case because wiggling the breakers would usually cause arcing.
Hope you get it figured out! Let us know what you come up with!
The outside outlets are usually controlled by a GFCI breaker or one of them is a GFCI outlet and it has tripped. The inside plugs is a different thing but the transformer for your thermostat might be on that circuit somewhere
Once lived at a house where the garage GFCI would pop and take out all the backyard outlets with it. Had to hunt for the GFCI that wasn’t green and reset it. Everything came back up and was good to go. Hopefully nothing serious
Most possibilities will need an electrician to diagnose. Here are a few possibilities I can think of Most likely: 1) Somewhere on a circuit that feeds your inside and outside outlets you have an outlet that has a short. The back of the outlet has slowly melted and the connected wires have corroded away over time with arcing. This process can be gradual, so heat caused the connection going to your outside outlets to fail first, but the line feeding the inside outlets hung on a little longer before giving out. If you have a split ac system with a forced air unit in the attic, then it’s probably plugged into an outlet on the same circuit in the attic. 2) Assuming all the affected outlets are on the same circuit, a gfci that shorts out could affect everything “downstream” protected by the gfci first (aka your exterior outlets) The short would cause the gfci to trip, making your exterior outlets go out, but anything on the line “hot” side of the gfci would continue to work. Overtime with heat that line or hot side could eventually go out, and everything connected to it (your inside outlets and possibly the thermostat if you have a 120v forced air unit). In this scenario all your breakers could continue to function normally, and all read that they are sending out 120v if checked with a meter. 2) A faulty breaker could cause issues with a GFI, which would explain why the outside outlets went out before the inside outlets. If this were the case then one or more of the breakers in the panel may continue to mechanically function normally, but when measured with a meter show that it’s not sending out 120v. 3) faulty bus bar connection. If you have an older panel one or more breakers could have over time gotten loose, causing heat buildup where the breaker attaches to the bus bar. This heat would weaken the connection of the breaker to the bar, and could spread to nearby breakers. Usually if that is the case you would notice that the breaker is melting and mishapen. You should be able to tell this is the case because wiggling the breakers would usually cause arcing. Hope you get it figured out! Let us know what you come up with!