Wyoming County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wyoming County, Pennsylvania had 48 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.54 times the US outage time per person and 3.45 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 5 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 19, 2022, reached 8,458 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 18.2 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	56,056	32	2
2016	83,234	40	3
2017	148,158	48	3
2018	116,633	48	5
2019	148,059	40	3
2020	66,648	42	3
2021	228,357	72	12
2022	430,696	65	11
2023	163,163	59	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
Apr 19, 2022	18.2	8,458	94,899
Apr 20, 2022	50.5	3,143	94,080
Jul 24, 2022	28.8	3,387	55,496
Oct 31, 2019	42.2	3,156	45,124
May 2, 2017	37.2	2,309	42,576

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.