Union County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.29 times the US outage time per person and 0.39 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 60 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

34 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 3,877 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 34.0 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	9,472	11	0
2016	24,434	26	1
2017	37,722	19	3
2018	33,706	26	2
2019	70,418	20	5
2020	10,358	13	0
2021	22,008	22	0
2022	36,862	8	1
2023	20,704	18	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
Dec 15, 2022	34.0	3,877	30,304
Apr 15, 2019	14.2	3,778	20,120
Dec 1, 2019	13.5	2,829	19,752
Mar 27, 2017	10.5	2,149	14,270
Oct 27, 2019	9.2	1,477	12,258

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.