Washington County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Pennsylvania had 55 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.17 times the US outage time per person and 1.59 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 18 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

105 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 20,856 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 98.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Pennsylvania counties

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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	433,162	179	4
2016	302,117	165	3
2017	617,643	186	12
2018	347,144	170	5
2019	796,191	157	3
2020	374,477	136	6
2021	493,291	125	7
2022	1,420,750	134	9
2023	650,680	133	6

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
Feb 3, 2022	98.0	20,856	712,386
Feb 24, 2019	105.2	17,378	548,314
Jul 23, 2022	48.2	18,446	222,649
Apr 1, 2023	44.8	11,492	167,756
Aug 25, 2023	41.8	9,536	121,054

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.