Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.37 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 61 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Aughardest months

April and August made up 24% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 15, 2018, reached 7,685 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 48.0 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	112,566	52	2
2016	84,793	70	1
2017	85,007	57	0
2018	260,968	80	2
2019	179,766	66	0
2020	316,286	118	3
2021	363,931	143	3
2022	328,901	165	5
2023	251,335	138	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
May 15, 2018	48.0	7,685	80,382
Apr 13, 2020	16.5	10,684	58,473
Sep 7, 2023	28.0	9,137	54,368
Apr 15, 2019	39.2	2,684	48,668
Mar 26, 2021	28.5	4,953	47,803

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.