Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.39 times the US outage time per person and 0.53 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 57 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 19,250 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Pennsylvania counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

0.25M

0.5M

0.75M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	200,051	124	1
2016	210,730	154	2
2017	194,892	129	3
2018	822,544	167	1
2019	221,881	178	3
2020	374,230	168	3
2021	296,570	175	2
2022	376,444	184	3
2023	604,763	210	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

10%

20%

30%

40%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 2, 2018	73.5	19,250	599,056
Aug 4, 2020	53.8	16,063	171,518
Aug 8, 2023	18.5	12,818	142,214
Aug 8, 2023	4.2	24,460	87,119
Sep 1, 2021	32.0	11,663	74,536

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.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

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.