Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.37 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 61 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

128 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 3, 2020, reached 43,823 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 127.8 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	1,317,727	763	1
2016	945,264	693	0
2017	912,754	552	1
2018	1,768,021	706	1
2019	809,179	687	0
2020	1,812,528	569	2
2021	862,186	694	1
2022	490,938	712	0
2023	518,392	670	0

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 3, 2020	127.8	43,823	1,084,931
Mar 2, 2018	80.5	32,117	716,784
Jun 23, 2015	19.2	43,629	327,983
Aug 4, 2020	81.2	13,394	193,107
Mar 7, 2017	11.8	36,673	174,111

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.