Pike County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pike County, Pennsylvania had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.78 times the US outage time per person and 5.13 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 2 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

140 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Mayhardest months

March and May made up 74% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 26,915 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 82.8 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	97,613	64	2
2016	230,502	91	6
2017	156,458	68	3
2018	3,818,330	75	5
2019	248,840	77	3
2020	280,298	52	6
2021	159,310	74	4
2022	96,838	60	2
2023	101,093	70	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
Mar 2, 2018	82.8	26,915	1,938,577
Mar 6, 2018	140.5	20,536	1,411,747
May 15, 2018	94.8	17,383	377,271
Aug 4, 2020	32.8	16,054	124,962
Dec 2, 2019	50.8	6,086	119,266

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.