Cambria County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cambria County, Pennsylvania had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.97 times the US outage time per person and 1.32 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 30 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 15,799 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Pennsylvania counties

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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	145,090	76	3
2016	161,892	91	0
2017	219,244	100	4
2018	220,610	89	3
2019	364,906	130	5
2020	229,168	116	2
2021	412,693	144	8
2022	460,109	150	9
2023	576,667	115	5

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
Apr 1, 2023	46.8	15,799	218,124
Mar 3, 2023	50.2	8,262	157,796
Mar 26, 2021	33.0	7,884	87,960
Feb 4, 2022	18.2	8,228	64,931
Feb 24, 2019	45.8	8,806	59,055

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.