Mercer County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mercer County, Pennsylvania had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.05 times the US outage time per person and 1.43 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 25 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

108 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 18,186 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 101.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	116,618	66	2
2016	108,864	72	1
2017	271,196	61	4
2018	165,114	76	2
2019	225,528	77	6
2020	114,208	52	4
2021	126,201	44	4
2022	300,385	67	3
2023	1,080,377	51	3

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	101.2	18,186	472,055
Mar 25, 2023	108.0	26,180	467,415
May 22, 2022	55.5	15,053	226,306
May 1, 2017	50.8	8,297	115,461
Aug 25, 2023	42.8	5,579	73,809

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.