Berks County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Berks County, Pennsylvania had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.72 times the US outage time per person and 0.98 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 39 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

102 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 26,109 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.8 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	410,694	224	1
2016	424,612	209	1
2017	548,997	232	3
2018	722,355	262	3
2019	585,982	224	4
2020	1,707,333	221	6
2021	850,945	193	3
2022	761,064	228	2
2023	982,873	253	4

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
Aug 4, 2020	84.8	26,109	599,220
Jun 3, 2020	75.8	34,299	517,771
Mar 2, 2018	77.2	9,630	272,411
Sep 1, 2021	89.5	11,705	241,486
Dec 23, 2022	101.5	8,070	217,825

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.