Butler County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Butler County, Pennsylvania had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.08 times the US outage time per person and 1.46 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 23 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

125 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Aprhardest months

November and April made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 37,800 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 124.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	183,061	96	3
2016	114,118	113	0
2017	266,592	97	5
2018	1,885,764	101	3
2019	381,113	109	2
2020	450,755	94	8
2021	297,810	122	4
2022	337,831	116	3
2023	814,555	104	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
Nov 15, 2018	124.8	37,800	1,710,492
Apr 1, 2023	72.5	24,378	464,381
Mar 25, 2023	57.8	12,046	223,385
Feb 24, 2019	75.8	9,766	202,771
Aug 27, 2020	51.0	11,031	162,052

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.