Bedford County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bedford County, Pennsylvania had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 1.14 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 33 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Marhardest months

December and March made up 25% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 25, 2019, reached 3,937 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 43.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	40,051	26	0
2016	32,987	26	0
2017	68,552	43	2
2018	96,078	54	2
2019	195,968	50	4
2020	120,676	49	5
2021	125,942	39	4
2022	125,130	47	4
2023	78,895	39	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 25, 2019	43.0	3,937	64,118
Jan 20, 2019	22.8	2,911	33,414
Sep 1, 2021	29.0	3,503	29,906
Mar 4, 2023	32.5	2,179	29,735
Mar 2, 2018	42.2	1,755	28,472

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.