Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.40 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 55 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

49 hrslongest major outage

May, Janhardest months

May and January made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 1, 2017, reached 3,384 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 49.0 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	28,939	22	0
2016	21,181	17	0
2017	96,181	22	3
2018	26,008	18	0
2019	58,582	33	2
2020	20,784	15	0
2021	37,628	22	1
2022	47,202	22	1
2023	47,074	19	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
May 1, 2017	49.0	3,384	48,913
Aug 19, 2017	25.0	795	13,028
Aug 8, 2022	6.0	2,242	11,403
Aug 20, 2019	6.2	6,460	10,413
Dec 21, 2023	12.8	760	9,311

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.