Greene County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Greene County, Pennsylvania had 55 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.79 times the US outage time per person and 2.43 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 7 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

96 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 24, 2019, reached 4,141 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 96.2 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	77,602	49	4
2016	114,646	53	3
2017	203,906	56	7
2018	115,595	60	2
2019	236,056	55	10
2020	95,568	42	7
2021	78,503	45	7
2022	156,493	44	9
2023	260,808	51	6

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 24, 2019	96.2	4,141	99,900
Mar 25, 2023	45.2	4,485	83,088
Jun 23, 2017	26.8	4,573	40,434
Feb 4, 2022	63.5	1,321	40,087
Feb 18, 2022	27.5	4,185	38,241

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.