Columbia County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Columbia County, Pennsylvania had 45 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.19 times the US outage time per person and 1.61 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 17 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Sephardest months

April and September made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 15, 2019, reached 10,278 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.2 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	75,250	43	2
2016	68,116	55	2
2017	46,496	59	1
2018	305,281	81	7
2019	360,602	85	6
2020	91,144	70	5
2021	395,864	117	10
2022	235,336	103	7
2023	148,968	79	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
Apr 15, 2019	66.2	10,278	242,213
May 15, 2018	50.2	5,162	136,216
Mar 2, 2018	73.5	1,650	71,585
Sep 2, 2021	23.8	4,291	59,762
Mar 26, 2021	28.0	3,468	44,267

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.