Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.45 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 58 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 3,721 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.5 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	124,039	59	1
2016	97,968	96	0
2017	135,176	72	3
2018	268,472	92	3
2019	240,996	110	5
2020	116,974	95	2
2021	224,622	109	6
2022	224,530	129	3
2023	159,485	113	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
Mar 2, 2018	73.5	3,721	106,747
May 15, 2018	35.5	7,784	58,253
Jun 28, 2015	20.5	8,310	54,275
Apr 15, 2019	16.5	7,001	47,525
Apr 28, 2021	16.8	9,230	46,526

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.