Adams County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Adams County, Pennsylvania had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.44 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 53 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 21, 2021, reached 14,581 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	57,444	49	1
2016	139,364	58	0
2017	100,446	43	4
2018	84,163	52	2
2019	113,120	63	1
2020	71,254	56	1
2021	216,961	51	3
2022	186,898	61	6
2023	81,486	54	3

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
Jun 21, 2021	28.5	14,581	138,860
Dec 23, 2022	28.0	5,225	47,824
Jul 14, 2016	3.0	16,455	36,959
Dec 22, 2016	6.0	4,313	22,038
Jul 2, 2019	5.8	6,576	21,818

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.