Snyder County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Snyder County, Pennsylvania had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.40 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 55 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

23 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 15, 2019, reached 3,762 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 22.5 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	25,914	15	1
2016	7,216	12	0
2017	28,899	24	3
2018	76,965	40	2
2019	85,006	38	3
2020	25,768	27	1
2021	29,098	33	0
2022	22,048	20	1
2023	51,273	26	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
Apr 15, 2019	22.5	3,762	30,285
Jul 24, 2018	2.0	14,464	19,281
Mar 2, 2018	22.0	1,917	15,753
Jun 29, 2019	12.2	1,252	10,173
Jul 17, 2023	17.0	792	9,204

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.