Sullivan County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sullivan County, Pennsylvania had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.24 times the US outage time per person and 5.75 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 1 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

61 hrslongest major outage

May, Aprhardest months

May and April made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 2, 2017, reached 3,379 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 61.0 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	54,629	13	1
2016	8,117	16	0
2017	155,302	23	4
2018	23,173	17	0
2019	78,968	14	3
2020	37,280	27	0
2021	86,076	31	5
2022	101,373	25	5
2023	7,942	9	0

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 2, 2017	61.0	3,379	125,890
Apr 15, 2019	41.8	3,396	45,814
Apr 19, 2022	15.5	2,866	36,038
Jan 8, 2015	14.0	3,303	35,822
Jul 7, 2021	26.5	2,712	28,101

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.