Fulton County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fulton County, Pennsylvania had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 54 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

22 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Febhardest months

July and February made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2020, reached 1,312 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.2 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	3,116	4	0
2016	9,190	11	0
2017	13,760	4	1
2018	17,099	11	2
2019	21,450	12	3
2020	25,749	8	2
2021	22,236	13	1
2022	12,191	6	1
2023	9,677	8	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
Jul 21, 2020	20.2	1,312	15,521
Aug 4, 2017	20.0	1,630	10,801
Feb 25, 2019	21.8	471	8,637
Dec 16, 2022	17.2	380	6,023
Mar 2, 2018	20.8	273	4,966

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.