Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania had 47 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.66 times the US outage time per person and 3.60 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 3 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Mayhardest months

April and May made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 2, 2017, reached 11,371 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.2 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	67,887	37	2
2016	66,491	40	1
2017	509,508	68	5
2018	212,126	59	4
2019	132,889	56	5
2020	100,868	51	5
2021	275,425	82	9
2022	680,944	89	11
2023	181,052	75	5

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	72.2	11,371	319,203
Apr 20, 2022	69.0	10,581	305,012
Apr 19, 2022	18.8	12,299	179,535
Mar 2, 2018	59.0	5,901	111,407
May 5, 2017	16.2	8,248	78,247

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.