Wayne County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wayne County, Pennsylvania had 59 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.64 times the US outage time per person and 3.58 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 4 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

96 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Mayhardest months

March and May made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 15,864 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	70,196	63	1
2016	157,945	91	7
2017	321,152	79	10
2018	1,352,678	84	5
2019	224,614	79	5
2020	130,274	90	5
2021	304,815	125	12
2022	274,353	88	9
2023	154,255	77	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
Mar 2, 2018	83.2	15,864	773,820
May 15, 2018	96.2	12,100	287,492
Mar 6, 2018	71.0	5,097	177,498
May 2, 2017	43.2	3,978	118,686
Dec 2, 2019	50.2	3,195	64,184

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.