Mifflin County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.87 times the US outage time per person and 1.18 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 32 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

40 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Aprhardest months

August and April made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 18, 2019, reached 12,698 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Pennsylvania counties

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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	30,390	24	1
2016	48,364	33	0
2017	169,036	44	6
2018	109,568	49	2
2019	271,147	46	5
2020	50,007	41	1
2021	102,378	45	2
2022	38,438	27	1
2023	64,024	44	1

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
Aug 18, 2019	35.8	12,698	111,624
Apr 20, 2019	22.8	4,919	49,009
Oct 2, 2017	4.2	19,118	46,324
Apr 4, 2018	11.8	12,376	43,732
May 1, 2017	28.2	6,074	27,896

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.