Blair County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Blair County, Pennsylvania had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.70 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 47 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

37 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 11, 2021, reached 9,232 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 15.5 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	53,542	33	0
2016	102,780	67	2
2017	161,960	46	4
2018	84,770	48	0
2019	260,426	71	7
2020	139,827	53	2
2021	285,274	88	5
2022	133,812	54	1
2023	142,959	53	1

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
Jul 11, 2021	15.5	9,232	37,331
May 7, 2023	7.2	7,951	37,276
May 1, 2017	27.5	3,071	31,637
Aug 18, 2019	9.8	4,073	29,071
Jul 7, 2021	21.0	4,785	26,796

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.