Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.20 times the US outage time per person and 0.27 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 65 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

34 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Julhardest months

September and July made up 25% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 5, 2017, reached 11,302 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	274,577	147	2
2016	239,029	162	0
2017	275,769	155	2
2018	274,844	224	0
2019	230,497	203	1
2020	185,737	170	1
2021	257,004	206	0
2022	325,636	186	1
2023	435,794	196	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
Sep 5, 2017	28.8	11,302	82,202
Apr 22, 2023	9.0	11,593	74,185
Mar 2, 2018	35.0	4,926	48,713
Feb 25, 2017	34.5	6,315	48,468
Jun 23, 2015	20.8	7,056	43,586

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.