Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.10 times the US outage time per person and 1.49 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 22 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Aughardest months

April and August made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 10,971 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.2 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	60,936	38	2
2016	74,432	48	2
2017	143,496	58	5
2018	104,094	53	3
2019	139,788	59	4
2020	122,484	48	5
2021	107,835	45	4
2022	123,474	50	4
2023	169,637	51	4

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	46.2	10,971	92,478
Feb 24, 2019	51.8	1,877	40,943
Nov 1, 2019	26.0	2,998	33,200
Aug 12, 2023	29.5	1,212	31,191
Aug 4, 2017	22.0	2,537	25,514

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.