Monroe County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monroe County, Pennsylvania had 56 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.20 times the US outage time per person and 2.98 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 6 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

115 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Mayhardest months

March and May made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 46,392 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.0 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	176,514	103	4
2016	274,516	118	3
2017	212,281	125	7
2018	4,983,228	158	6
2019	534,020	147	5
2020	391,735	126	6
2021	468,756	182	8
2022	390,491	171	8
2023	616,480	153	9

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
Mar 2, 2018	83.0	46,392	2,793,668
May 15, 2018	92.5	37,109	1,240,394
Mar 6, 2018	115.0	19,493	723,455
Dec 2, 2019	71.0	11,289	249,808
Sep 7, 2023	52.5	12,234	149,106

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.