Fallout 76 Maintenance time today (Burning Springs update)

Fallout 76 will have a scheduled downtime today (December 2 UTC) to deploy its big end-of-year update, Burning Springs. Those following Amazon's Fallout TV series might be especially thrilled about this update, as Walton Goggins is coming to Appalachia (or at least its off-road border map) as The Ghoul. However, given that this is the second-ever map expansion after Milepost Zero, there's many more quests and POIs to chew through.

As expected of such a massive update, it might take quite a while for maintainence downtime to complete for Fallout 76 today. Here's all the information currently on hand.

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When does maintenance start today for Fallout 76 Burning Springs update?

Alongside Burning Springs, we're also getting Season 23, Blood x Rust today, and maintenance for seasonal updates tend to start at 10 am ET on the day of update. Bethesda has now officially confirmed, that, too: Fallout 76 is going offline for maintenance at 10 am ET / 3 pm UTC.

So globally, starting at the given times below, you cannot connect to your F76 Adventure for a few hours (including private servers):

• United States and South America: 7 am PST / 8 am MST / 9 am CST / 10 am EST / 10 am BRT (December 2, 2025)
• Europe: 3 pm GMT / 3 pm UTC (November 14, 2025) / 4 pm CEST (November 15, 2025) / 5 pm EET (December 2, 2025)
• Africa: 5 pm SAST (December 2, 2025)
• Asia: 7 pm GST / 8:30 pm IST / 11 pm PHT / 11 pm CST (Beijing Time; December 2, 2025) / 12 am midnight JST/KST (December 3)
• Australia: 2 am AEDT/ 4 am NZDT (December 3, 2025)

This means Fallout 76 Burning Springs is technically coming out on December 3 for a few regions, including Oceania and parts of Asia.

As of this writing, maintenance has started to apply the update! While you're waiting, here's the patch notes for Fallout 76 Burning Springs.

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Fallout 76 Burning Springs release time (speculative): When could maintenance end?

Burning Springs will almost certainly take a long downtime (Image via Bethesda Softworks)

Most seasonal updates take 5-6 hours of maintenance to roll out for Fallout 76. Given that Burning Springs also includes a main map expansion on top of all that, it should take at least six hours to patch everything in the live client.

Officially, Bethesda has not provided a concrete timeline on when maintenance will end. However, factoring in the size of this major update, an educated guess would be at seven hours of downtime, meaning Fallout 76 Burning Springs' release time can be 5 pm ET (10 pm UTC).

However, it could stretch well past this estimated time in reality. We will monitor the official sources and update this article once maintenance downtime starts. By then, there could be more reliable information on when Fallout 76 Burning Springs will release.

Meanwhile, you can check out our hands-on preview of the Burning Springs update.