Juniata County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Juniata County, Pennsylvania had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.76 times the US outage time per person and 1.03 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 35 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

24 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 23% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 17, 2018, reached 11,836 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 5.5 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	25,928	16	2
2016	37,916	24	1
2017	41,720	23	2
2018	51,098	42	0
2019	87,451	40	3
2020	15,037	19	0
2021	65,407	38	2
2022	42,612	29	0
2023	25,445	29	1

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
Jul 17, 2018	5.5	11,836	24,530
Feb 25, 2019	18.8	2,943	21,506
Apr 15, 2019	14.8	5,038	20,800
Oct 30, 2017	23.5	1,020	12,655
Sep 23, 2021	11.5	2,065	10,226

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.