Potter County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Potter County, Pennsylvania had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.37 times the US outage time per person and 1.86 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 14 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 27% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 1, 2017, reached 1,318 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.8 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	26,454	15	1
2016	37,935	24	2
2017	61,169	19	2
2018	53,318	16	4
2019	51,682	25	1
2020	82,964	28	4
2021	50,092	19	2
2022	32,995	17	1
2023	86,196	21	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
May 1, 2017	47.8	1,318	24,206
Apr 1, 2023	25.8	877	21,054
Aug 27, 2020	23.5	795	17,797
May 4, 2018	20.8	871	17,100
Apr 18, 2020	18.8	762	14,032

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.