Lawrence County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lawrence County, Pennsylvania had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.57 times the US outage time per person and 0.77 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 43 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 16,345 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.5 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	45,022	39	0
2016	30,725	35	0
2017	68,252	44	2
2018	91,971	52	1
2019	144,301	47	2
2020	119,560	46	3
2021	79,957	33	1
2022	50,601	41	1
2023	423,690	41	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
Apr 1, 2023	72.5	16,345	243,952
Mar 25, 2023	67.0	10,124	139,246
Feb 24, 2019	63.8	3,016	87,783
Jun 11, 2020	27.2	4,865	44,554
Nov 16, 2018	44.8	1,788	35,162

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.