Venango County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Venango County, Pennsylvania had 32 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.73 times the US outage time per person and 2.35 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 8 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Novhardest months

April and November made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 16,300 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.0 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	56,148	43	1
2016	48,052	45	1
2017	157,852	46	5
2018	77,352	55	1
2019	84,449	52	3
2020	309,284	80	5
2021	147,482	58	5
2022	214,756	72	7
2023	792,724	59	4

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 1, 2023	81.0	16,300	573,874
Mar 25, 2023	61.5	5,844	133,537
Nov 15, 2020	19.5	9,289	123,660
Nov 16, 2020	38.5	6,665	73,152
May 1, 2017	33.5	3,994	61,547

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.