Northampton County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Northampton County, Pennsylvania had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.73 times the US outage time per person and 0.99 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 37 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 45,620 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.2 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	239,246	121	1
2016	354,534	139	0
2017	417,066	169	3
2018	2,260,036	188	4
2019	259,792	153	2
2020	314,707	128	2
2021	314,136	132	4
2022	381,139	142	3
2023	655,679	151	7

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	81.2	45,620	1,790,894
May 15, 2018	57.0	16,819	139,261
Aug 8, 2023	36.8	9,579	128,364
Aug 7, 2023	10.8	19,023	127,855
Dec 23, 2022	58.5	12,557	104,365

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.