Indiana County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Indiana County, Pennsylvania had 40 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.99 times the US outage time per person and 1.35 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 29 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

55 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 9,986 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 44.0 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	109,007	79	3
2016	84,076	55	0
2017	121,105	72	3
2018	192,061	77	4
2019	214,860	110	3
2020	205,988	127	5
2021	316,885	134	10
2022	249,012	120	9
2023	319,129	119	3

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
Mar 3, 2023	44.0	9,986	110,323
Apr 1, 2023	32.8	10,377	105,728
Feb 24, 2019	54.8	6,084	66,267
Jul 13, 2021	21.5	9,725	44,080
Mar 17, 2021	5.5	11,189	31,044

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.